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Kubernetes is a low level tool which should be used only at large companies with large teams to support it and build all the required tooling around it. 80% of
by midrus 5y ago
Kubernetes is a low level tool which should be used only at large companies with large teams to support it and build all the required tooling around it.
80% of companies building on top of kubernetes should just pay some provider to do it for them, or use higher level tools. The crazyness going in the DevOps/Infrastructure world is as bad, or worse, as the one going on in the frontend space.
- manigandham 5y agoKubernetes provides a standardized way to deploy application artifacts to multiple servers, and handles monitoring, logging, process management, storage, networking, security, isolation, high-availability, rolling deployments, and other concerns in a industry-standard way that is portable across providers. It's just software that runs your software. You can't remove complexity, only abstract it. Instead of using Chef/Puppet/systemd/hand-written scripts and a bunch of other tools to run and monitor your processes, you can replace all that with K8S. > "used only at large companies with large teams" Actually it's even more useful with smaller teams and let me, as a team of 1, deploy a global ad platform running billions of requests a day across hundreds of servers in multiple regions. Don't mistake lack of knowledge and experience as a problem with the tool. > "pay some provider to do it for them" Yes, you should use a managed K8S offering. Using K8S doesn't mean you have to install and operate it from scratch.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoGCP's Autopilot k8s is basically point-and-click. Literally takes few minutes to get up and running. It even creates CI/CD pipelines for you.