Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
My question is: Why is only k8s so popular when there are better alternatives for a large swath of users? I believe the answer is &quot;Manufactured Hype&quot;. k8s is from a purely architectural standpoint the way to go, even for smaller setups, but the concrete project is still complex enough that it requires dozens of different setup tools and will keep hordes of consultants as well as many hosted solutions from Google&#x2F;AWS&#x2F;etc in business for some time to come, so there&#x27;s a vested interest in continuing to push it. Everyone wins, users get a solid tool (even if it&#x27;s not the best for the job) and cloud providers retain their unique selling point over people setting up their own servers.<p>I still believe 90% of users would be better served by Nomad. And if someone says &quot;developers want to use the most widely used tech&quot;, then I&#x27;m here to call bullshit, because the concepts between workload schedulers and orchestrators like k8s and nomad are easy enough to carry over from one side to the other. Learning either even if you end up using the other one is not a waste of time. Heck, I started out using CoreOS with fleetctl and even that taught me many valuable lessons.