Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.

Yes:

Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation for IDPs. It provides a consistent way to define, extend and enforce platform building blocks. Whether you’re provisioning a cloud database, managing a network policy or applying compliance rules, Kubernetes APIs make platforms programmable, predictable and composable. This API-first foundation also makes Kubernetes uniquely ready for the AI era. Agents and large language models (LLMs) don’t navigate dashboards or tribal knowledge; they interact with APIs. And Kubernetes offers a consistent, structured interface designed from Day 1 for machine-to-machine communication.”

But:

Instead of memorizing YAML schemas or reading through long docs, they could interact conversationally with an agent that understands both the platform’s APIs and the organization’s rules.

Too bad we chucked all that PaaS work back in the late 2010’s and decided to build it all over again from the dirt-up.

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