Kubernetes is not a platform. It is a set of four intersecting control loops.

Day 0 is easy. You run the installer, the API server comes up, and you feel like a genius. Day 1 is magic. You deploy Hello World, and it scales. Day 2 is a hangover.

On Day 2, the pager rings. A Pending Pod triggers a node scale-up, which triggers a cross-zone storage...