I am not understanding how you say you ran a cluster when you were using a managed instance so you weren’t really running it. Now , going to a VPS makes you effectively the MSP. I don’t see how that addresses the LTS issues since k8s is updating so often that you have to keep pace with the updates (that you now need to do).
I use a managed instance and manage my own private instance.
> I don’t see how that addresses the LTS issues since k8s is updating so often that you have to keep pace with the updates (that you now need to do).
They're not saying they moved to running k8s on a VPS - they're saying they moved to using a VPS instead of k8s (i.e. have escaped the k8s upgrade cycle).
I use a managed instance and manage my own private instance.