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Overengineering is a real problem out there. I’ve seen k8s deployed for internal back office apps that have literally 5 users - a raspberry pi could’ve hosted i
by igammarays 7y ago
Overengineering is a real problem out there. I’ve seen k8s deployed for internal back office apps that have literally 5 users - a raspberry pi could’ve hosted it. Keeping things simple and reliable is often a harder skill to learn than $BIGCO_TECH, and often confounded by political incentives.
- Glyptodon 7y agoSo if you do that another internal enforcement group will come and be like "policy is that everything is cloud now, what's your migration plan?" regardless of anything else, and the only answer is to have a plan that keeps costs similar to the Raspberry Pi.
- hedora 7y agoSo, request budget to move the app to a cloud VM / container, and work out the security issues, etc. The latter will be expensive, but the RPi deferred the cost. Bean counters like deferred costs. Then, ask finance to figure out the billing. It costs about $5 / month to rent a raspberry pi equivalent, but multitenancy might reduce that.