did you ever looked at k3s? what is more difficult about k3s than managing ansible?
what about kubespray? it's basically k8s managed via ansible? what makes it so difficult?
When folk want managed k8s, they effectively wanted something akin to a "serverless" compute pool that they point the k8s API at and worry about nothing else - not underlying hosts, networking configuration, storage, etc. The ideal is how close it gets to that. K3s still leaves hardware management to you.
For work projects, I don't want to care about hardware—or "machines" of any sort, for that matter. Give me a ready-to-go platform with networking, storage, node management, etc. already configured. I don't even want to have to run scripts.
At home, I'm happy to play around with such things—and just might (I just purchased an old Dell server to take care of some home tasks and provide a sandbox environment). But at work I want to be as far away from the bare metal (physical machines or VMs) as possible.
