A question I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “why are you still using Ansible in your Kubernetes projects?” Followed often by “what’s the point of writing your book Ansible for Kubernetes when Ansible isn’t really necessary once you start using Kubernetes?” I spent a little time thinking about these questions, and the motivation behind them, and wanted to write a blog post addressing them, because it seems a lot of people may be confused about what Kubernetes does, what Ansible does, and why both are necessary technologies in a modern business migrating to a cloud-native technology stack (or even a fully cloud-native business). One important caveat to mention upfront, and I quote directly from my book: While Ansible can do almost everything for you, it may not be the right tool for every aspect of your infrastructure automation.… Read more