It's kind of a cynical position, actually, because embedded in it is the underlying contention that all of the attention the platform has gotten since 2015, the

It's kind of a cynical position, actually, because embedded in it is the underlying contention that all of the attention the platform has gotten since 2015, the startups it has spawned, the resources being put into it by every major systems tech vendor, the doubling in size of kubecon every year for the last three years, the hundreds of how-to and in-depth articles that have been written, have all resulted from some sort of hype and anticipation of future benefits. There are thousands of nodes running production workloads right now. I've been running it in production since 2016. The value is certainly apparent to our team. Yes you can stitch a lot of it together with shell scripts and systemd or swarm or whatever. But why would you?