Hey, OP here. You're completely right. This is what Kelsey Hightower is hinting at when he says Kubernetes is a platform for building distributed systems. Wha

Hey, OP here. You're completely right. This is what Kelsey Hightower is hinting at when he says Kubernetes is a platform for building distributed systems. What enables that is the declarative/autonomic nature. Declarative/autonomic systems aren't a fit for everything (e.g. for observability and monitoring the edge changes absolutely matter) but they're certainly a good fit for many things. IMO there are a lot of parallels with functional programming. In any event, strongly agree with everything you wrote. It's a good topic for another blog post!