Maybe after 5-10 years it will be mature enough to support many k8s features out of the box and can then replace k8s itself. But it is very far from that currently.
I think they use NATS.io to include “edge” services, which is something that is challenging to do in a single k8s cluster.
I don’t think they are trying to replace k8s, but instead are solving a slightly different problem, which is attempting to build something somewhat like k8s, but with very different networking and security constraints.
A recent blog post highlighted some of the work we’ve done to provide a Kubernetes Operator for wasmCloud: https://wasmcloud.com/blog/2025-01-09-wasmcloud-operator-bri...
This will provide you an equivalent experience to what you might expect from Kwasm, with the major difference being that you will not need to change the underlying Kubelet in any way while still getting the benefit of being able to deploy WebAssembly components natively on Kubernetes.