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Idk, isn't the value of cloud computing supposed to be reduced spend on ops? Then k8s in my opinion doesn't meet that criterion because of its sheer complexity
by tannhaeuser 8y ago
Idk, isn't the value of cloud computing supposed to be reduced spend on ops? Then k8s in my opinion doesn't meet that criterion because of its sheer complexity - you very much need ops staff capable to diagnose and fix problems, not to mention the lock-in. OTOH if you just buy RDBMS, MQ, identity and compute service tiers directly, then you might have success with cost as an SME.
- jsiepkes 8y agoI think its more meant to keep spending / complexity controllable in the long term (ie. linear instead of exponential). Howeverrrrrr you will need to make sure you are actually going to need that larger scale at some point in the future. Otherwise you are probably better off with an simpler solution like Terraform. I think the k8s madness its a bit like the NoSQL craze in that sense.
- swasheck 8y agoI'm not sure about that. I thought cloud was primarily about consolidation of infrastructure, development, and operational headcount which does price some sort of OpEx reduction, but the primary goal being the reduction (elimination, in some cases) of CapEx from a pure infrastructure perspective. Every place I've been (or "visited") has seen OpEx increase but it's more quantifiable than work-hours which are typically tracked with project buckets in some workforce tracking application.