Complex surrounding infrastructure requiring deep expertise
8/10 HighThe real challenge in Kubernetes deployment goes beyond cluster setup to configuring RBAC, secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code. Teams without prior experience make decisions that require painful redesigns later, as shown by organizations requiring 50% of their year dedicated to cluster maintenance.
Sources
- Pain Points Persist as Reliance on Kubernetes Rises
- Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025?
- Komodor 2025 Enterprise Kubernetes Report
- Sentry Review 2026: Problems, Pricing & Honest Analysis | Try or Bye
- Top 5 Kubernetes Management Challenges and How Platforms ...
- Top 5 hard-earned lessons from the experts on managing Kubernetes
Collection History
Self-hosted deployment became maintenance nightmare. Teams chose self-hosting to avoid per-event costs, only to discover the operational complexity of managing 10+ services. Events silently failed, updates were painful, and the TCO exceeded cloud pricing.
The real challenge isn't setting up the EKS cluster, but configuring everything around it: RBAC, secrets management, infrastructure-as-code... If you haven't done it before, you're likely to make decisions that will eventually come back to haunt you.