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Why would one want a 'personal kube cluster'?

• pantulis 7y ago
  For learning purposes, I guess.
  • xenophonf 7y ago
    Or if you want to self-host. I'm not a huge fan of ceding my digital life to the likes of FAANG, even though I use their services a lot. Conversely, running my own infrastructure (DNS, email, etc.) is kind of a pain, and it'd be nice to apply the same kinds of personal force multipliers to my home setup that I use at work (config management, security benchmarks, automatic provisioning, version control, etc.)
• yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  You're on Hacker News. Playing with fun new technology is 100% a valid "usecase" here:)
  • jariel 7y ago
    Yes, of course! Which is why it's a rhetorical question. Many technologies, I can see how people would want to hack on. But Kube, to me, is going way down the rabbit hole - a tech to support another tech, to support another tech, to support another tech, to do maybe something at scale, which few will ever do. I feel as the Kubes is one of those almost entirely arbitrary forms of complexity that pulls our nerdy attention into the netherworld. I feel lately that tech people are creating a fully on dystopia of total complexity: more than any one individual can grasp in a lifetime, and a situation in which it's nary impossible to know even which direction someone should head to be a 'pragmatic contributor' who also has 'some semblance of a life' without woefully falling behind. It's one thing to have enthusiasts, it's another to have a situation wherein only kids coding since 18 and running their own 'kube clusters' and 10-layer stacks at home have the chops to do what's necessary.