Re:Kubernetes as a Platform vs. Kubernetes as an API
by cmeacham98 on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:37AM
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Disclaimer: I work for AWS but had nothing to do with this blog post (I'm seeing it for the first time with everyone else here).
I think this is an unfair summary of the post. Of course, using Kubernetes to orchestrate other AWS services is going to be a go-to example on the _AWS_ blog, but there is plenty of vendor-agnostic software doing similar things: DNS Records[1], Databases[2], even using Kubernetes CRDs to deploy Kubernetes[3].
The idea of using Kubernetes as an API to orchestrate external resources doesn't inherently lock you into any single vendor.
I think this is an unfair summary of the post. Of course, using Kubernetes to orchestrate other AWS services is going to be a go-to example on the _AWS_ blog, but there is plenty of vendor-agnostic software doing similar things: DNS Records[1], Databases[2], even using Kubernetes CRDs to deploy Kubernetes[3].
The idea of using Kubernetes as an API to orchestrate external resources doesn't inherently lock you into any single vendor.
1: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns 2: https://github.com/kubedb/operator 3: https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/