Only one sentence about why they chose to abandon K8s:
> It all sounded like a win-win situation, but [on-prem kubernetes] turned out to be a very expensive and operationally complicated idea, so we had to get back to the drawing board pretty soon.
It was very expensive and operationally complicated to self-host k8s, so they decided to build their own orchestration tooling? Sort of undercuts their main argument that this bit isn't even remotely fleshed out.
> It all sounded like a win-win situation, but [on-prem kubernetes] turned out to be a very expensive and operationally complicated idea, so we had to get back to the drawing board pretty soon.
It was very expensive and operationally complicated to self-host k8s, so they decided to build their own orchestration tooling? Sort of undercuts their main argument that this bit isn't even remotely fleshed out.