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Zero maintenance work implies you are not doing security patches or upgrades, so as soon as you have a problem, not only will you be left holding the now broken
by zie 9y ago
Zero maintenance work implies you are not doing security patches or upgrades, so as soon as you have a problem, not only will you be left holding the now broken pieces, nobody will have any reason to help or support you, unless you pay them $$$$$$'s(and even then.... maybe not).
I hope whatever you are running under k8s isn't crucial or important, and I really hope I'm not a customer of whatever you "operate".
Maintenance is real, that applies to everything if you want it to work reliably for any length of time. There are various ways to handle maintenance, do a little consistently and constantly (what most of us professionals do) or do large bulk-replacements every X time (like when stuff crashes and burns - and nobody can remember how to fix it, so they just replace it with whatever is new and shiny).
- kemitche 9y agoGCE is a hosted k8s. Google does the maintenance for you, to my understanding.
- zie 9y agoAH! sorry. I didn't realize Google started offering hosted k8s.. That def. keeps maintenance down, since Google does it for you. It's been a while since I've dug into k8s in depth.
- ownagefool 9y agoGoogle, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM all offer managed kubernetes.
- zie 9y agoCool. This definitely makes it easier to use k8s, but that's very different from running k8s. My comment(s) are geared about running k8s yourself. My systems are all on physical hardware we own, hence I don't really pay a lot of attention to the latest and spiffiest in hosted platforms.
- brianwawok 9y agohave you ever used google hosted k8s? I am a 1 man shop. I manage my cluster in ~10 minutes per month.
- zie 9y agoAH! sorry. I didn't realize Google started offering hosted k8s.. That def. keeps maintenance down, since Google does it for you. It's been a while since I've dug into k8s in depth.
- brianwawok 9y agoHas to be a good year or so? Been a while. AWS is the new one, just started a few weeks ago.
- zie 9y agoMy systems are all on physical hardware we own, hence I don't really pay a lot of attention to the latest and spiffiest in hosted platforms.
- brianwawok 9y agoYou probably should :)
- kureikain 9y agoI second to this. Setting up K8S is a walk in the part. Upgrading it is hard. Especially with stuff like Kafka/ZooKeeper run on a K8S cluster.