For clarification, I'm talking about devices such as home automation gateways, planes, and production lines. These devices often have bespoke toolchains for de

For clarification, I'm talking about devices such as home automation gateways, planes, and production lines. These devices often have bespoke toolchains for deploying and managing software on them. This is an additional barrier of entry: cloud teams need to learn a new toolchain to move to the edge. Moreover, these toolchains often need changes to how release management works. So naturally, the question arises "why can't we just use the same tools that we use in the cloud?" Right now, Kubernetes isn't the greatest fit for the edge. Distributions such as K3s and KubeEdge try to solve some of the problems with Kubernetes itself, but that's only half of the picture. A large advantage of Kubernetes is the ecosystem of third party operators. So that's what we're trying to address.