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Using the most expensive laptop you can find as a thin client to a rented cluster of virtualized machines which themselves are virtualizing still smaller machines which run software intended to virtualize still smaller machines.
The workload? Probably capable of running on a raspberry pi.
As an aside: Lately I have become annoyed with both analogy and hyperbole. In an effort to wage my own private war on language I pulled out a raspberry pi and checked. The work _can_ be done on a raspberry pi (model 3b).
Congratulations to me, I guess. Short of starting a forest fire while I wait for containers to build I'm not sure how I could have made this a more expensive process intended to accomplish so little.
Good lord, I don't think anyone actually knows how to write software any more. Advocating for using things like Kubernetes, to me, surpasses incompetence and has reached a level I would describe as negligent. Truly, this is the power of cloud computing.