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Managing a VM vs a managed Kubernetes cluster? I'd choose kubernetes without hesitating

Don't manage VM, try LXD containers [1], they are containers with much better security and you can still use the same tools you learned for last decade or two to manage including the DSL if you like that.

Kubernetes is an Overkill for majority of development and production systems.

[1] https://linuxcontainers.org/

> Managing a VM vs a managed Kubernetes cluster?

So the win is not having to manage something :-) How is that a fair comparison?

> So the win is not having to manage something

Exactly!

> How is that a fair comparison?

Not only is it a fair comparison, but I'd say it's the entire raison d'etre of using any orchestration platform: You get to farm out bits of the infrastructure to others. Getting on k8s enables you to not have to run your own infrastructure, whereas having VMs being your abstraction sorta by definition does not.

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