K8s forced industry to have a consistent open cluster API that will drive innovation and competition. We can have multiple implementations of the same API, but

K8s forced industry to have a consistent open cluster API that will drive innovation and competition. We can have multiple implementations of the same API, but what I am seeing currently from the "commercial" vendors is the base K8s with UI changes. I hope we will have multiple implementations of the spec. The specs also have to evolve with time. Last decade, systemd had its fair share of criticism. But it provided a consistent API to run "Compute Units" locally. K8s can benefit from the same principles to manage "Compute Pods" across the cluster. The concepts of promise theory [1] provide interesting control loop co-ordination. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory