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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes
spaced repetition prompts - blog section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes

Blog Post -- Section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes

Which roles sit in the control plane?

The Mayor and The Deacon.

 Contrast the three-word descriptions of the purpose of Kubernetes vs. Gas Town.

Kubernetes: "Is it running?" Gas Town: "Is it done?"

 What does Kubernetes optimize for vs. what does Gas Town optimize for?

Kubernetes optimizes for uptime — keep N replicas alive forever. Gas Town optimizes for completion — finish the work, land the convoy, then nuke the worker.

 In Kubernetes, pods are anonymous cattle. What plays the "cattle" role in Gas Town?

Sessions. Polecats are credited workers with persistent identities — it's their sessions that are disposable.

 What is the Gas Town equivalent of a Kubernetes Node?

A Rig.

 What is the Gas Town equivalent of a kubelet?

The Witness — a local agent on each Rig monitoring ephemeral workers.

 What is the Gas Town equivalent of etcd?

Beads — the git-backed source of truth the whole system reconciles against.

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