> What's the really simple K8s?

I think K8s couples two concepts: the declarative-style cluster management, and infrastructure + container orchestration. Keep CRDs, remove everything else, and implement the business-specific stuff on top of the CRD-only layer.

This would give something like DBus, except cluster-wide, with declarative features. Then, container orchestration would be an application you install on top of that.

Edit: I see a sibling mentioned KCP. I’ve never heard of it before, but I think that’s probably exactly what I’d like.