I understand the concern with too many layers but you have it wrong in this case. The low level platform is Kubernetes. This is a managed service on Google Clo

I understand the concern with too many layers but you have it wrong in this case. The low level platform is Kubernetes. This is a managed service on Google Cloud, or you can run the open source project on other substrates. What you are seeing here from Redspread is a super easy way to run kube locally. Redspread represents a growing suite of tools to make managing stuff on Kubernetes easy anywhere. The best analogy I've seen for the pattern is "porcelain" and "plumbing", which I learned from Git. We certainly need pipes and valves everywhere. But we really want a toilet and sink, simple specialized interfaces to the holes in the ground. Kube is low level plumbing for managing raw compute and network resources. Kube itself has some higher level tools. But it's great that Redspread is making some too. There are plenty of unique use cases and workflows we all want