The wheels fall off kubernetes at around 10k nodes. One of the main limitations is etcd from my experience, google recently fixed this problem by making spanner

The wheels fall off kubernetes at around 10k nodes. One of the main limitations is etcd from my experience, google recently fixed this problem by making spanner offer an etcd compatible API: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-65k-nodes-and-counting?e=48754805 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes... Etcd is truly a horrible data store, even the creator thinks so.