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You don't need them until you're hired by a client with nation-wide deployment requirements, and then you need them.

• aprdm 8y ago
  Not necessarily. Needless to say containers and kubernetes are pretty new technologies and nation wide deployment requirement existed before docker / k8s. Most of the old big companies aren't using docker or k8s for their core services. They're all using legacy fat apps that are load balanced in baremetal or vms.
  • TuringTest 8y ago
    I doubt a home-made solution to load balancing will be seen as simpler, which is what's being argued by the comment I replied to. The point isn't that you need Kubernetes specifically, it's that requiring a system that scales well is not as uncommon as the OP puts it.
    • mattbillenstein 8y ago
      k8ts is not the only avenue to building scalable systems -- scaling is mostly about architecture, not how you run your software.
      • TuringTest 8y ago
        > k8ts is not the only avenue to building scalable systems I had already conceded that. What's your point?