Everyone talks about how powerful Kubernetes is. Nobody talks about how much it costs to run it yourself. It costs you in money as well as in time, in people, in failed weekends, and in engineering hours that could have gone toward building your actual product. If your team is managing its own Kubernetes cluster, this article is for you. Because the sticker price of self-managed K8s is almost never the full picture. Which part of Kubernetes cost nobody puts in the budget When teams decide t...