I've seen k8s managed by a couple of DevOps (among the rest of the infrastructure) and used in a company with 3-5 teams (and 200 microservices, but not that much code, they just drank the microservices kool aid).
That was a migration from running containers on EC2 (semi automated orchestration) to running and maintaining k8s on EC2.
Best infra experience I've seen in any company I worked at (and the company wasn't that great overall).
I also ran some smaller scale K8s by myself while doing eng management work, so I disagree K8s is as hard as people make it to be
I've seen k8s managed by a couple of DevOps (among the rest of the infrastructure) and used in a company with 3-5 teams (and 200 microservices, but not that much code, they just drank the microservices kool aid). That was a migration from running containers on EC2 (semi automated orchestration) to running and maintaining k8s on EC2.
Best infra experience I've seen in any company I worked at (and the company wasn't that great overall).
I also ran some smaller scale K8s by myself while doing eng management work, so I disagree K8s is as hard as people make it to be