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There is a saying in Kubernetes "containers are cattle, not pets". That is from a software perspective, the actual saying should be "hardware is cattle, not pe
by stonemetal12 4y ago
There is a saying in Kubernetes "containers are cattle, not pets". That is from a software perspective, the actual saying should be "hardware is cattle, not pets, and your containers are fleas on the cattle's back". If you aren't running on enough hardware for servers to be cattle not pets, then Kubernetes is solving a problem you don't have, and probably won't have for a long time.
- msm_ 4y agoWell, it's both. Kubernetes lets you "just build and deploy" your containers without worrying about micromanaging your servers. Is it complicated? Sure. Are there simpler solutions to that problem? Yeah, for example docker swarm. But I like k8s, it does everything I need, it prevents "server rot" because the state is explicit, and it's not that hard to admin if you know what you're doing.
- bradwood 4y agoThat saying predated k8s.