[llarsson]

The point of Kubernetes was to make "run this software on a cloud" trivially compatible across clouds. No specialized code that is needed for load balancers, storage, networking... you should be able to take your containerized application and the set of YAML files that describes what you want to do, and they work on "any" cloud.

As long as you don't rely on implementation details like a specific Ingress Controller that needs special annotations, this is exactly what Kubernetes does, and the reason why you have Helm Charts that don't need to take into consideration which the underlying cloud is.

Going back to what we had before, you had to be very aware of exactly which cloud provider you'd use. And since AWS had about 80+% of the market then, that meant that instructions for how to run things on Google's cloud were not very good, if they existed at all.

[paulddraper]

> The point of Kubernetes was to make "run this software on a cloud" trivially compatible across clouds.

That was not the point of Kubernetes.

And if it was, it did not realize that point for many years.