It’s not any more complicated than doing it other ways if you want control of the full infra stack. Advantage of k8s is you get a hardened unified API that works everywhere.
> 3. Could we get away with a simpler set of abstractions for 90% of applications?
Yeah but you can do that in k8s too, check out knative serving for example. K8s encourages the creation of higher level abstractions, with the advantage that you always have the break glass to dig into the primitives, which you don’t get with a lot of other systems.
> 3. Could we get away with a simpler set of abstractions for 90% of applications?
Yeah but you can do that in k8s too, check out knative serving for example. K8s encourages the creation of higher level abstractions, with the advantage that you always have the break glass to dig into the primitives, which you don’t get with a lot of other systems.