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The wrapper can still be something self-hosted. There will always be SaaS/PaaS/IaaS abstractions out there for just about everything; even MySQL. The idea would
by meowface 7y ago
The wrapper can still be something self-hosted. There will always be SaaS/PaaS/IaaS abstractions out there for just about everything; even MySQL. The idea would be for someone to be able to very easily self-host something that's as simple to use and configure and interface with as AWS EKS or Google GKE.
I have no idea what business case there'd be to open source it. Maybe some open source devs with former experience at a big company will create one just for fun after they leave the company? Who knows. It'll probably happen eventually, by someone, either way.
- wayoutthere 7y agoWould you do your day job “just for fun” after you just quit? The reality is that most of this technology — especially around infrastructure — has become so complex at scale that the tech strategy and the business strategy are the same thing. So infrastructure software has to match your business architecture which is largely dictated to a technology org. Which is why “tech ops” these days is largely just “ops” — the technological complexity is a reaction to increased business sophistication, not the other way around.
- meowface 7y agoMe? No. But some people seem to like to do that. And some people do seem to be genuinely very passionate about infrastructure and such. Kubernetes can be applied to a lot of different business and technological architectures, I think, and a simpler alternative could be similarly general.