[moshloop]

Kubernetes isn't the source of complexity - it is the problem domain of building and operating distributed systems that are fundamentally and essentially complex.

Compare the complexity of Kubernetes to Openstack - the next most similar project in the same problem space, and you will find Kubernetes is actually pretty simple.

[bauerd]

OpenStack and Kubernetes serve different purposes. Despite the article, Kubernetes at its core really is a container orchestrator. OpenStack is a collection of software you'd use for running a mini-AWS on bare metal infrastructure.

[moshloop]

OpenStack and Kubernetes don't serve different purposes - they just solve them differently.

Both fundamentally are about abstracting the way in which infrastructure is managed.

[bauerd]

Well you can't run OpenStack on Kubernetes, but the other way round works. They target infrastructure at different levels of abstraction

[eldelshell]

I think you meant OpenShift. OpenStack works with full fledge VMs not containers.

[moshloop]

I meant OpenStack.

Kubernetes works with fully-fledged VM's as well - See Kubevirt