If you look at the features listed by Kubernetes (K8s) and compare it to languages that run on the Erlang VM, such as Erlang and Elixir, the impression is that they share many keywords, such as "self-healing", "horizontal scaling", "distribution", etc.

This sharing often leads to confusion. Do they provide distinct behaviors? Do they overlap? For instance, is there any purpose to Elixir's fault tolerance if Kubernetes also provides self-healing?

In this article, I will go over many of these topics and show how they are mostly complementary and discuss the rare case where they do overlap.

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