Same here, I run K8s both locally and on GKE for a project. My GKE cluster is just 2 nodes that have 2vCPU & 3.75GB RAM each. Performance is great and it has saved me an insane amount of time. I have also created an open source project that does one thing - updates your deployments :) https://keel.sh. Previously I tried several different hosting options but nothing is easier/more convenient than k8s for me.