People focus way too much on the orchestration aspect of Kubernetes when the real draw for larger, more mature organizations is that it provides a good API for

People focus way too much on the orchestration aspect of Kubernetes when the real draw for larger, more mature organizations is that it provides a good API for doing pretty much anything infrastructure or operations related. You can take the API primitives and build whatever abstractions you want on top of them to match up with how your org deploys and operates software. Once you get into stuff like Open Application Model and start marrying it to operators that can deploy AWS resources and whatever GitOps tool you want to use, you end up with a really nice, consistent interface for developers that removes your infrastructure folks as a bottleneck in the "Hi I want to deploy this new thing everywhere" process.