I haven't seen these failure modes in 2021. We do managed clusters at work and have created around 100,000 of them, and basically all the pods we intend to start start, and all the pods we intend to kill die -- even with autoscaling that provisions new instance types. Our biggest failure mode is TLS certificates failing to provision through Let's Encrypt, but that has nothing to do with Kubernetes (that is a layer above; what we run in Kubernetes).
EKS continues to be painful. It has gotten better over the years, but it is a chore compared to GKE. I like to imagine that Jeff Bezos walked into someone's office, said "you're all fired if I don't have Kubersomethings in two weeks", and that's what they launched.
EKS continues to be painful. It has gotten better over the years, but it is a chore compared to GKE. I like to imagine that Jeff Bezos walked into someone's office, said "you're all fired if I don't have Kubersomethings in two weeks", and that's what they launched.