🔗 How I think about Kubernetes

Kubernetes is most often described as a container orchestration tool, but after you’ve spent some time with it, that mental model doesn’t always feel like the most useful way to think about what’s happening.

In many cases for me Kubernetes feels less like an orchestrator and more like a platform where you declare the desired state of your infrastructure and let the system continuously work to match your intent.

That’s why I like to think of Kubernetes as a runtime for declarative infrastructure with a type system. Let me break it down.