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but the situation could be the reverse: I replace someone who did a pile of k8s and didn't document anything, and while I could orchestrate the whole with libvirt recipes in my sleep, I wouldn't even know how to look up the command

> kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

so familiarity is not a good argument here

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True. In order to know kubernetes, you need to know kubernetes. But the point is at least it's a framework rather than someone you or I came up with and never wrote down. But if you don't know it, you don't know it. The question is, is learning it useful?

> The question is, is learning it useful?

Even that question is too broadly posed. The question is, is learning it in addition to[1] the previously-standard tools useful?

[1] In the context of the article, this might be "instead of", which presents a much lower bar.

I don't see how libvert is easier to learn than kubernetes.

Neither one is obvious to a sysadmin who hasn't worked in either world.

I meant that familiarity with a framework isn’t an argument. Libvirt isn’t doing exactly the same thing as k8s and it isn’t easier or harder

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