Woops - missed the discussion here - but I did want to chime in to say that generally speaking RStudio's professional products are agnostic to the Kubernetes distribution that you choose to go with. That said, minikube, microk8s, and variants like that (i.e. k3d, k3s, etc.) are generally designed for development work and would not be recommended for a production deployment.
We are definitely happy to keep these conversations ongoing, though! We do our best to document what features we need within a Kubernetes cluster (for instance, our containers running as root can cause problems within OpenShift, but the OpenShift administrator can usually scope an appropriate exception for the services).
Also @BigRStudioFan - love the username 