Why would you want to do that though?

On cloud, in my experience, you are mostly paying for compute with managed kubernetes instances. The overhead and price is almost never kubernetes itself, but the compute and storage you are provisioning, which, thanks to the control plane, you have complete control over. what am i missing?

I wouldn’t dare try to with a small shop try to self host a production kubernetes solution unless i was under duress. But I just dont see what the control plane has to do with it. It’s the feature that makes kubernetes worth it.