Besides using kubectl to manage VMs, you also get VMs that join the cluster network as first-class citizens. In this blog post you can see a k8s service pointin

Besides using kubectl to manage VMs, you also get VMs that join the cluster network as first-class citizens. In this blog post you can see a k8s service pointing to a VM and accessing k8s services from within the VMs. Also, compared to EC2 / GCE / etc., you can use Virtlet for bare metal on-prem clusters, too.