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Any extensible platform will be driven into a complex slurry of options and configurations to support every niche vendor/use case. I think the successor of kub

Any extensible platform will be driven into a complex slurry of options and configurations to support every niche vendor/use case. I think the successor of kubernetes will be a simpler version of Fleet: distributed systemd. The future is edge, and edge doesn't need to integrate with every series A startup, it needs a small footprint and stability. I've been tinkering with a prototype that does this (and if anyone is interested in collaborating, my email is in my profile).

p_l 5y ago
The strength of Kubernetes (vs Mesos, OpenStack, etc.) is that you can strip it down pretty well so that you only bring the niche bits that you need - whether it's edge, or something big that needs a lot of extras. The unified API mechanisms and moving drivers out of core helped a lot there. Also, in my experience, it turns out that you can quickly find yourself needing all those extra bits if you're not Google (which implements a lot of the same features in libraries linked to programs directly and depends on the fact that they run customized everything) or Netflix (similar).