--- title: "💭 Chris Biscardi's Digital Garden" description: "!https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/wtf-is-kubernetes" date: 2025-05-12 published: true tags: - k8s - thought template: link ---

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. It's a short note that I make about someone else's content online #thoughts