Comment by zozbot234

K8s is trying to do distributed computing on a low-level OS platform that was never developed or designed for this purpose. Look at things like plan9 to see how much easier and more elegant it could be. Sure, plan9 doesn't provide k8s' autoscaling and provisioning features out of the box but the basic building blocks are all there. (And no, Linux is nowhere close to providing these patterns because custom user-space implementations of kernel-side features are only made possible on a totally ad-hoc basis.)