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OS for the cloud is exactly what it is. I see AWS, Azure and GCP as OEMs for cloud, just like Samsung, Oppo, Motorla, etc are OEMs for smartphones. Android was
by enos_feedler 6y ago
OS for the cloud is exactly what it is. I see AWS, Azure and GCP as OEMs for cloud, just like Samsung, Oppo, Motorla, etc are OEMs for smartphones. Android was the open source abstraction across these devices. K8s is the open source abstraction across clouds.
The meaning of "app" on top of these two operating system abstractions is entirely different and the comparison probably doesn't extend beyond this. From a computing stack standpoint though, it makes sense.
- tly_alex 6y agoAWS and other cloud provider provides far more reliable and simpler features/toolkings than k8s. For teams that's serious about building services on the cloud, having k8s to take over certain area of orchestration make sense, but the "operating system" K8s provides is just a tiny peace of the overall infrastructure.