Even though I fully agree with you, running a little 3 node cluster just for fun is amazing. Thanks to Rook and an Nginx ingress controller with kube-lego, I’m able to deploy applications leveraging distributed storage and getting tls secured endpoints without a single ssh session. This, in my point of view, is absolutely powerful.
Shameless plug, I‘ve been working on a project explaining how to run small scale clusters in the cloud for more than a year: https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide
Shameless plug, I‘ve been working on a project explaining how to run small scale clusters in the cloud for more than a year: https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide