Reading the recent Kubernetes blog posts about CAPI in-place updates, I revisted the docs.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/27/cluster-api-v1-12-release/
I think cluster-API would have really profited from a stronger API schema. I get the problem of how different providers underneath are and the intend to accommodate this, but I think the reality with cluster-api is that it now just replicates the upstream APIs and therefore reproduces vendor lock-ins.












