VMs are application agnostic, while Kubernetes is a service manager. If you want to run 200 different services on 40 machines, you may find hand crafted VMs ea

VMs are application agnostic, while Kubernetes is a service manager. If you want to run 200 different services on 40 machines, you may find hand crafted VMs easier to create and forget. If you want to run 10 services with different levels of replication and redundancy on 40 machines, then Kubernetes will do that for you.