tldr - powered by Generative AI

• Developers using Kubernetes often need to manage dependencies like databases and message queues
• Manually provisioning and managing these dependencies is not scalable
• Service catalog was an attempt to solve this problem by providing a single source of truth for all infrastructure and application dependencies
• Service catalog was built on top of the open service broker API, which allows for decoupling between service providers and consumers
• One issue with service catalog was its complexity and lack of adoption