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> It's original purpose wasn't to do elastic scaling or anything like that - it was to binpack workloads onto a set of nodes This is arguably still its primary
by mhink 4y ago
> It's original purpose wasn't to do elastic scaling or anything like that - it was to binpack workloads onto a set of nodes
This is arguably still its primary purpose, and all the rest of its features are ancillary and only exist for the sake of operational convenience.
- p_l 4y agoConsiderable portion of the internet, even people who supposedly know k8s, have this weird notion that it's for "scaling up" ... Except they never talk about scaling what single engineer can do, but some less useful things like dynamically adding lots of servers ;)