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by bauerd 2311 days ago
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.
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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.

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