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“Plain old Linux” really isn’t an alternative to K8S though. You would need a load balancer, service discovery, a distributed scheduler, a configuration managem
by wwright 6y ago
“Plain old Linux” really isn’t an alternative to K8S though. You would need a load balancer, service discovery, a distributed scheduler, a configuration management system (K8S is a very strong alternative to building things around Ansible IMO). You can do all of those things without K8S, of course, but not with “plain old Linux” (what would that be anyway? GNU coreutils and the kernel? Vanilla Debian stable?)
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- anang 6y agoMaybe I’m way off, but aren’t all of those things required for k8s? Ingress controllers, etcd cluster, terraform modules, storage configuration, etc... I guess if you pay for a hosted service a lot of the control plane is taken care of. I’ve used k8s in orgs where it’s a great fit and really fills a need, but it is considerably more complex than running a web service balanced across a couple of machines, and it definitely requires a lot more upfront complexity (as in, you have to solve problems before you have they are actually problems).