1. You don't 'lose' the pods. If your pod fails on liveness or readiness checks it restarts, over and over until it passes.
2. Depends on your team for sure. If you are on a team that's like "We'll just spin this up and it will be fine." you ignore the fact that 'things happen'. I've seen similar situations with companies that deploy on bare linux servers as well, some update breaks something or something isn't optimally configured. Things go wrong with systems, people who know the systems are needed to fix them. It sounds like if you intend on using kubernetes you should learn to troubleshoot it.
It's not difficult to find people who know how to actually run kubernetes, it's just hard to convince them to switch jobs for you. I get a decent numbers of cold, non recruiter, linkedin contacts a month, and frankly many recruiters... but my current job pays well and matches my worklife balance. Zero people who are reaching out from startups offer the whole package, they can usually come in fine on the money, but I'm not working a hundred hours a week with little to no support. On the 'established corporate enterprise' side of the house, they can be inflexible when it comes to vacation time, salary ranges etc. but I've found a good place.
2. Depends on your team for sure. If you are on a team that's like "We'll just spin this up and it will be fine." you ignore the fact that 'things happen'. I've seen similar situations with companies that deploy on bare linux servers as well, some update breaks something or something isn't optimally configured. Things go wrong with systems, people who know the systems are needed to fix them. It sounds like if you intend on using kubernetes you should learn to troubleshoot it.
It's not difficult to find people who know how to actually run kubernetes, it's just hard to convince them to switch jobs for you. I get a decent numbers of cold, non recruiter, linkedin contacts a month, and frankly many recruiters... but my current job pays well and matches my worklife balance. Zero people who are reaching out from startups offer the whole package, they can usually come in fine on the money, but I'm not working a hundred hours a week with little to no support. On the 'established corporate enterprise' side of the house, they can be inflexible when it comes to vacation time, salary ranges etc. but I've found a good place.