I've also seen more of it being used for deployments of on-prem versions of SaaS services. I think the idea is that if you're already hosting your SaaS services

I've also seen more of it being used for deployments of on-prem versions of SaaS services. I think the idea is that if you're already hosting your SaaS services on k8s distributing a machine image to your Enterprise customers running a scaled down deployment of your services on a single node kube cluster makes some of the packaging and updating challenges easier.