The short answer is YES. K8s is the closest you are going to get to putting your entire application on a USB stick and plugging it into any computer to run. I

The short answer is YES. K8s is the closest you are going to get to putting your entire application on a USB stick and plugging it into any computer to run. It is currently the de facto app for modern applications. It’s missing a lot of stuff, but it’s a good way of packaging things and with CRDs you can bolt on the other things you need and make them portable as well. Whenever the majority of the industry agrees on an abstraction level we are able to make lots short term improvements. I say short term because obviously platform hegemony is often a bad thing, but it frees us up to focus on one area of the stack. So if you can build a great app with k8s and move it between clouds, you have sufficient lock-in protection for a provider. When someone improves on k8s they will create a mostly clean interface so you don’t have to do a ton of things to port your app. Look at Docker as an example. Everyone thought that was the greatest thing in thr world, but once they have everyone a clean abstraction layer they setup a ton of other container runtimes to slide/shim in and now the runtime layer is being well commoditized. The value for most people and businesses is at the top of the stack.