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Date: May 12, 2025

External Link
 christopherbiscardi.com [1]

Interesting take on kubernetes from a front end perspective. All valid arguments to me, and really the answer to any do you **need** to any specific implementation of tech is probably no. We got along just fine before k8s ever existed and you still can, but its really nice in a lot of cases. If your skills lean toward backend or infrastructure I encourage you to give it a try.

## k8s _distros_

There are a lot of beginner friendly k8s distros that you can setup with relative ease, kind and k0s are great for single node, If you want multi-node k3s is what I generally use. If you want a very lightweight OS that you only interact with through an api, and has a very small attack surface talos is an amazing product.

## When else might you want k8s

Internal, on-prem, self hosted. If you are trying to avoid the cloud for cost, rules, regulations, red tape, kubernetes is a great option to manage your container workflows yourself without needing to have a cloud budget, get approvals and sign offs on running workflows in a public cloud.

!!! note

 This post is a thought [2]. It's a short note that I make
 about someone else's content online #thoughts [3]

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[1]: https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/wtf-is-kubernetes
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /tags/thoughts/