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I think the idea that you don't need k8s if you have Erlang isn't entirely wrong, but it also does people a disservice by making them sound equivalent when they
by ramchip 5y ago
I think the idea that you don't need k8s if you have Erlang isn't entirely wrong, but it also does people a disservice by making them sound equivalent when they complement each other really well.
K8s is like an additional level of supervisor that applies to an entire node, and provides really easy scaling and clustering. It's a great tool to run an Erlang app, especially if you already have a managed k8s cluster anyway.
This article describes it well: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/10/kubernetes-and-the-erlang-vm-orchestration-on-the-large-and-the-small/ http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/10/kubernetes-and-the-...