There's work in a new kublet replacement that moves things that would normally go into daemonset into systemd (or something like systemd).

There's also a neat feature of podman that runs pods as systemd units, which is a nice intermediate step between a more traditional pet server and a full kubernetes cluster.

it could have been said without the x lines of code comment. "lines of code" is so often used as a "disparagement" about software rather than a metric for understandability.

Something along the lines of "...not needing a general purpose init system that integrates with logging, network and mounting, when all we are running is Kubernetes."

The second I learned how to write systems unit files was the second I evicted initv/rc.d scripts from my mind. Well, okay, from my search terms at least ;-)

It can even kind of replace cron with timers, and no more mucking with grub. Also, true parallel init tasks. Love it.