Answers: <p>I'm taking a look at some old questions people might find, I accept that you either solved this a long time ago or moved on!</p>
  <p>&quot;In simple terms...&quot; well, yes. It's hard to talk about this without it heading into abstrations, management planes, and similar mind-fogging terminology. In fact, I may be about to fail in describing it without at least some jargon, but it's limited to <em>only jargon you'll already know if this tech will be useful to you</em>.</p>
  <p>The simple version is that Virtural Kubelet lets you take advantage of serverless platforms or event-driven platforms acrorss providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).</p>
  <p>The idea is that it brings scalability and cost benefits.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have read about the <a href="https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Virtual Kubelet</a> project.</p>
  
  <p>I can see that it allows you to <em>delegate</em> from Kubernetes to an Azure Container Instance (ACI), that it allows you to deploy both unix/windows boxes, that it will enable "billing by the second".</p>
  
  <p>I'm quite new to Kubernetes and I am struggling understand the advantages in simple terms.</p>
  
Tags: <kubernetes><azure><virtual-kubelet>
Title: In simple terms, what is the advantage of a Virtual Kubelet?
UserDisplayName: Mark McLaren
ThreadText: # In simple terms, what is the advantage of a Virtual Kubelet?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-31)
  
  I have read about the [Virtual Kubelet](https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet) project.
  
  I can see that it allows you to *delegate* from Kubernetes to an Azure Container Instance (ACI), that it allows you to deploy both unix/windows boxes, that it will enable "billing by the second".
  
  I'm quite new to Kubernetes and I am struggling understand the advantages in simple terms.
  
  **Tags:** kubernetes, azure, virtual-kubelet
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-03-31. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  I'm taking a look at some old questions people might find, I accept that you either solved this a long time ago or moved on!
  
  "In simple terms..." well, yes. It's hard to talk about this without it heading into abstrations, management planes, and similar mind-fogging terminology. In fact, I may be about to fail in describing it without at least some jargon, but it's limited to *only jargon you'll already know if this tech will be useful to you*.
  
  The simple version is that Virtural Kubelet lets you take advantage of serverless platforms or event-driven platforms acrorss providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).
  
  The idea is that it brings scalability and cost benefits.
  
  
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