These days it feels like the real value of kubernetes is not the ability to "planet scale" but actually the control-plane API. With tools like kind, it actually

These days it feels like the real value of kubernetes is not the ability to "planet scale" but actually the control-plane API. With tools like kind, it actually is really easy to get going locally, no cloud needed. I see no reason to not use it, even if your deployment cluster lives on a single vm. The API is worth it.