Comment by firesteelrain

Lots to unpack here.

I will just say based on recent experience the fix is not Kubernetes bad it’s Kubernetes is not a product platform; it’s a substrate, and most orgs actually want a platform.

We recently ripped out a barebones Kubernetes product (like Rancher but not Rancher). It was hosting a lot of our software development apps like GitLab, Nexus, KeyCloak, etc

But in order to run those things, you have to build an entire platform and wire it all together. This is on premises running on vxRail.

We ended up discovering that our company had an internal software development platform based on EKS-A and it comes with auto installers with all the apps and includes ArgoCD to maintain state and orchestrate new deployments.

The previous team did a shitty job DIY-ing the prior platform. So we switched to something more maintainable.

If someone made a product like that then I am sure a lot of people would buy it.