Disclaimer: I work for AWS but had nothing to do with this blog post (I'm seeing it for the first time with everyone else here). I think this is an unfair summ

Disclaimer: I work for AWS but had nothing to do with this blog post (I'm seeing it for the first time with everyone else here). I think this is an unfair summary of the post. Of course, using Kubernetes to orchestrate other AWS services is going to be a go-to example on the _AWS_ blog, but there is plenty of vendor-agnostic software doing similar things: DNS Records[1], Databases[2], even using Kubernetes CRDs to deploy Kubernetes[3]. The idea of using Kubernetes as an API to orchestrate external resources doesn't inherently lock you into any single vendor. 1: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns 2: https://github.com/kubedb/operator https://github.com/kubedb/operator 3: https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/ https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/