I would say durability. HN is obsessed by e-waste so pointing out that something can last 7+ years wins some over. Not being sarcastic, nor am I mocking anyone, I am stating an observation.
In some aspects, I'd hope that there are potential benefits on the security side of things as well. Since the host FS is generally read only in these type of distros, there is the potential to make some security teams happy.
Its my understanding that these good folks have moved away entirely from their hosted stuff. In the context of glos this was the "stash" feature, removed with v2 release.
"Going forward, we will refer to the open, freely available versions as “community”. The BSL license is open, free, and source-available. However, it does not meet the definition of open source as defined by OSI" https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq
"The BSL (also sometimes abbreviated as BUSL) is considered a source-available license (..) Unlike open source licenses, the BSL prohibits the licensed code from being used in production — without explicit approval from the licensor." https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-...
(By way of example: The source code for Windows has been leaked several times, including on github, and MS made it available to various parties over the years, but I think we can agree that it is not open source.)
With the marketshare that Kubernetes has, I can definitely see why so many eBPF projects focus on supporting it.
Still makes me wish more of them had support for things like HashiCop Nomad, standalone Docker/Podman, or standalone hosts.
Maybe one day! Could be really interesting to see this kind of stuff used inthe likes of homelabs or just smaller environments, or even just environments where kubernetes isn't in.