Karpenter, you complete me
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Every once in a while, some new product comes along that solves a problem you didn't know you had, and does it so well that after you've had it, you can't imagine how you ever lived without it.
This is how I've come to feel about Karpenter. I guess you could say that the category it lives in already existed, given it's designed to replace the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler, but the effect it's had on my life as an EKS cluster operator and platform engineer makes me feel like the comparison cheapens it.