I still remember a recent company I worked at. They had a strict on prem datacenter ethos. Their procurement was so bad that you had to know your hardware requi

I still remember a recent company I worked at. They had a strict on prem datacenter ethos. Their procurement was so bad that you had to know your hardware requirements months ahead of time to get what you ask for (pre-covid mind you). If you under provisioned, you were boned. What naturally happened? Teams allocated a ton of resources that ended up sitting around in bitrot hell. I think someone took a sample of all system CPUs and found something like 6% averages. Pathetically underutilized. If this was k8s, it means the company can provision for their general needs, and teams can requisition what they needs easily through technological means instead of bureaucratic ones. Crap like storage classes, etc are sure more annoying than simple apps teams, but it's way easier than needing to manage the bare metal and provisioning / maintenance / migration that is often completely invisible to apps teams. Oh my app got restarted an hour ago, why was that? Oh it turned out a node had it's hard-drive started to fail and the node automatically drained it's load and moved them to a spare capacity node without you. Plus it often saves the need to page a human to run around frantically to figure out why all these services are crashing or misbehaving.