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In the past you simply had to compile your application, package it and push it to a remote server. Nowadays, it's not that simple anymore. You often find yourself writing scripts to create Kubernetes resources, manage remote APIs to create services which are needed by your application, talk to remote services (like HashiCorp Vault) to get credentials or secrets. Gaia does a great job here because you can directly use client SDKs in your preferred language to communicate with those remote APIs.

Have a look at the Kubernetes deployment tutorial, this might clear things up for you: https://medium.com/@michelvocks/automatic-kubernetes-deploym...