I've been using Kubernetes exclusively for the past two years after coming from a fairly large Saltstack shop. I think traditional configuration management is f

I've been using Kubernetes exclusively for the past two years after coming from a fairly large Saltstack shop. I think traditional configuration management is flawed. Configuration drift _will_ happen because something, somewhere, will do something you or the formula/module/playbook didn't account for. A Dockerfile builds the world from (almost) scratch and forces the runtime environment to be stateless. A CM tool constantly tries to shape the world to its image. Kubernetes isn't a silver bullet of course, there will be applications where running it in containers adds unnecessary complexity, and those are best run in a VM managed by a CM tool. I'd argue using k8s is safe default for deploying new applications going forward.