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by reissbaker 212 days ago
Yup. K8s is a bit of a pain to keep up with, but Chef and even Ansible are much more painful for other reasons once you have more than a handful of nodes to manage.

It's also basically a standard API that every cloud provider is forced to implement, meaning it's really easy to onboard new compute from almost anyone. Each K8s cloud provider has its own little quirks, but it's much simpler than the massive sea of difference that each cloud's unique API for VM management was (and the tools to paper over that were generally very leaky abstractions in the pre-K8s world).