I love my k8s. Spend 5 minutes per month over the past 8 years and get a very reliable infra
5 mins seems unrealistic unless you’re spending time somewhere else to keep up to speed with version releases, upgrades, etc.
I’m not using k8s personally but the moment I moved from traditional infrastructure (chef server + VMs) to containers (Portainer) my level of effort went down by like 10x.