Gas Town does maybe look a bit like Kubernetes, unintentionally. Both systems coordinate unreliable workers toward a goal. Both have a control plane (Mayor/Deacon vs kube-scheduler/controller-manager) watching over execution nodes (Rigs vs Nodes), each with a local agent (Witness vs kubelet) monitoring ephemeral workers (Polecats vs Pods). Both use a source of truth (Beads vs etcd) that the whole system reconciles against. These are apparently the natural shapes that emerge when you need to herd cats at scale.
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