[hitpointdrew]

> My problem with K8s: the network abstraction layer just feels _wrong_.

> I would very much prefer if K8s used public routable IPv6 for traffic delivery

shudder... nothing could feel more wrong to me than public routable IPv6, yuck.

[lmm]

Publicly routable is wonderful. My first job was a company that happened to have somehow acquired a class B, so all our computers just had normal real addresses, they always had the same address whether you were on a VPN or a home network or whatever and remoting into the company network just worked.

[icedchai]

Same! It was incredibly easy to obtain address space in the 80's and 90's. I have a /24 ("class C") routed to my home!

[cyberax]

Why? It neatly separates concerns. Routing and reachability should be handled by the network. The upper layers should handle authorization and discovery.

Public IPs also definitely don't need to be accessible from the wide Internet. Border firewalls are still a thing.