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No. Kubernetes is a complicated piece of orchestration software that codifies some of the techniques giant tech companies like Google and Facebook have develope
by madhadron 6y ago
No. Kubernetes is a complicated piece of orchestration software that codifies some of the techniques giant tech companies like Google and Facebook have developed to work at their scale.
Under the hood you still have to configure and manage the actual computers and their operating systems, which means you're also running Chef, Puppet, or the like. You need to have a pretty big engineering organization (handwavingly, the few hundred engineer range) before it makes sense to run both the config manager and Kubernetes.
Managed Kubernetes may change this equation for you if you're going that route.
- zubairq 6y agoSo what is your opinion of this article? https://thenewstack.io/kubecon-2018-kubernetes-is-the-new-os-so-what/ https://thenewstack.io/kubecon-2018-kubernetes-is-the-new-os...
- madhadron 6y agoIt's an ad from a conference about Kubernetes.
- zubairq 6y agoBut I guess you don't always need to configure the systems underneath, if you buy Kubernetes as a service from Google or Amazon, is that correct?
- madhadron 6y agoYes, and if you buy managed databases as a service you don't have to do your own backups (though you probably should copy their backups offsite on a regular schedule). That doesn't mean you should regard k8s as the new OS. If you wanted to go that route, the relevant things to look at are Inferno, Plan 9, and clustered VMS.
- zubairq 6y agoOk thanks, I'll check out Inferno, Plan 9, and clustered VMS then, if they are the future of IT world