Kubernetes works on it’s own if all you use is in k8s. I’ve yet to set foot in a bigger place with distributed teams and services that only use k8s and nothing

Kubernetes works on it’s own if all you use is in k8s. I’ve yet to set foot in a bigger place with distributed teams and services that only use k8s and nothing else. In these settings there’s a need to interconnect and monitor everything. I’ve even at one time registered mainframe stuff in consul, as an external service, with a rather complex health checks in place. This alone improved observability and reliability for a lot of the distributed consumers.