You are discussing cloud application platforms using the car analogy. Which car type is best to describe Red Hat Cloud Services?

It's like a race car where every part of the car is chosen and optimized to work together and there is a pit crew $($i$.$e$.$ the SRE team$)$ to manage it$.$ You, as the user, just need to focus on the destination, the applications that are running on the platform.

You need to add all the additional components to the car to make a complete app platform. Tires, airbags and seat belts are probably important from a security and governance perspective. A steering wheel helps as well. You need to CHOOSE and STITCH together all of these components to complete the car or the app platform.

Pre$-$built car and it's a pretty nice sports car as well. It's an opinionated app platform that integrates all the components that we feel you need to optimally build, deploy, and run your Cloud$-$native and traditional applications.

Can be likened to the engine of the car. May be powerful, has a lot of potential, but you will not get very far with just the engine. Kubernetes is just the platform, the base layer.