It caught my eye too, but if this perception is true they do a pretty good job of faking it. I don't know if our clusters are "at scale" - the largest of them has about 120 nodes - but we have had very few issues in over three years of running production workloads on GKE.

GKE SRE feels all the pain of kubernetes and none of the pleasure. You don't get paged to be told that the fleet is happy.

Absolutely true!

I got involved very early and had to roll my own implementation using terraform and shell scripts.

It has been in productions for a long time without issue. Only downside is that we have to do blue green upgrades for major versions instead of in-place upgrades.

I keep pushing for our customer to adopt eks or gke, anything but my custom code base.

Out of curiosity, is it rough hearing that the author felt lied to by the marketing, or that you worked for one of the companies doing it, or something else?

as a customer of the mentioned cloud managed service

Author here. If I had to run Kubernetes for money-making purposes, I would still seriously consider GKE. I still think they're the best at running k8s. It's just that k8s limits what any operator can hope for.