[maccard]

As someone who doesn't want to be a sysadmin, but wants to deploy applications to the cloud, the options are fairly limited. Kubernetes handles updates and scaling, networking between services, has managed offerings from all the major cloud providers, has an enormous ecosystem surrounding it, with many tools providing out of the box support for it.

I could use docker swarm, or nomad, but I have to manage infrastructure, write my own integrations, manage the underlying hardware.

Or I can run az aks create and be off to the races

[ForHackernews]

Sure, at this point it's a self-fulfilling prophecy: K8s is almost the only game in town because...it's almost the only game in town.

But how did it get to that point? How did something so big and unwieldy that even billion-dollar cloud providers can't do upgrades on it properly (*cough* looking at you, EKS) become the go-to standard for running apps in containers?