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Why does everyone cite k8s as the tool for the job when there have been massive problems actually getting k8s to work at scale without constant tweaking and bab
by sam0x17 5y ago
Why does everyone cite k8s as the tool for the job when there have been massive problems actually getting k8s to work at scale without constant tweaking and babysitting? In reality this is almost always either traditional load balanced clusters, ala-carte systems like Google App Engine / Elastic Beanstalk or (more so these days) serverless compute. At Google, they use Borg internally which is an early precursor to k8s that is more akin to traditional load balancing.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoIsn't the promise of k8s a kind of dev-friendly serverless-compute engine, but your process(es)/architecture may be running for moments, days, weeks, or years, and spread across environments dynamically? I would expect aspects of such a thing to require tweaking and babysitting, as the demands of the application(s) evolve.
- sam0x17 5y agoRight but the second I have to dictate the number of nodes to scale any further, that contract has been broken imo.