[cwiggs]

IME yes, yes it is. I usually tell people running a k8s cluster is similar to running your own "cloud". If you want to just deploy an EC2 instance you just tell AWS you want an EC2 instance and you are done (mostly). You don't have to worry about if the hardware under the EC2 VM has enough resources, you do have to worry about that with k8s though. If you want to lock down the EC2 VM to have certain permissions you use AWS IAM, with k8s you have to use cluster roles and cluster role bindings. You can apply these 2 examples to many other things in k8s vs "cloud" provider, Ingress, persistent volumes, etc.