PaaS is cool but IaaS sells

PaaS is cool but IaaS sells(ramansharma.substack.com)

2 points by intrepidsoldier 1 year ago | 3 comments

taylodl 1 year ago |

Sure, when you've redefined K8S as being IaaS then you can make the claim that it's IaaS that sells. I can make lots of claims if I'm afforded the luxury of redefining terms.

intrepidsoldier 1 year ago | |

Fair point. I agree that K8s is not quite IaaS as I talked about here: https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/multiple-stops-on-the-clo...

But I think several of its characteristics resemble IaaS more than PaaS.

taylodl 1 year ago | | |

> But I think several of its characteristics resemble IaaS more than PaaS.

I disagree, but I understand why someone would think that, and if I were given an assignment to argue the point then I could probably convince people that K8S is IaaS, too. BUT, I think it's important for us to recognize that K8S is a platform, and by definition, anybody providing you that platform as a service has provided you a PaaS.

Maybe we should just say people don't want IaaS or PaaS, they want Kubernetes as a Managed Platform, or KaaMP! And who doesn't like camp?!