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If you plan to manage on-prem Kubernetes clusters, I’d look into the certifications. If you just want to deploy to Kubernetes I wouldn’t bother. In many field
by mrweasel 5y ago
If you plan to manage on-prem Kubernetes clusters, I’d look into the certifications. If you just want to deploy to Kubernetes I wouldn’t bother.
In many field basic Kubernetes skills have become expected, but you don’t need the certications to prove it.
It may depend on where in the world you’re located.
- rainboiboi 5y agoI have the opportunity to setup a K8s cluster (simple one) on-prem and get it to work. It was an interesting experience. But I'm also cognizant that as more applications are built on top of cloud native services (AWS/Azure/GCP), how relevant then would K8s be?
- nocture 5y agoOn the contrary, as companies rely more and more on the cloud, they chase the mirage of avoiding lock-in even more and k8s plays a big role in this
- rainboiboi 5y agoYes, I suspect there would be a rise in multi-cloud setup and K8s skills might be valuable here.
- mrweasel 5y agoSeems very much in line with the solutions we see from customers. I still think there a big savings in embracing the managed cloud service of the individual providers, but customers see it as a risk.
- withinboredom 5y agoI don’t know if managed clusters is actually a savings unless you really need the elasticity. Usually managed solutions are 2 or 10x the cost of dedicated servers or on prem, respectively.
- mrweasel 5y agoSorry, I was talking about managed database, lambda, S3. I agree that managed Kubernetes is to expensive. Unless you have a very specific workload, it honestly doesn’t make sense. Depending on your usecase building on cloud service and auto-scaling VMs is going to be much cheaper.
- k8sToGo 5y agoI mean we are using AWS, but at the end it is still Kubernetes underneath (EKS). So the concepts still apply.