[holografix]

I find K8s to be the perfect tool for enterprises.

It provides the promise of portability, so the business feels less locked in to a vendor, while still being dense and impenetrable enough to them that IT won’t be done out of a job.

Simpler, more efficient alternatives are seen as more expensive, because IT hides the true cost of just how much of their salaries is spent of non-productive pottering around with yaml.

These systems and products also threaten to automate IT out of a job and don’t necessarily count much for their resumes. If you’re not a programmer what interest do you have in dumping all of your intricate, fragile environment for a PaaS? Not much