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Good for them. Now they have a one-off to manage themselves. It’s pretty easy to de-cloud using something like k3s. So much value added in Kubernetes to leverag
by rad_gruchalski 4y ago
Good for them. Now they have a one-off to manage themselves. It’s pretty easy to de-cloud using something like k3s. So much value added in Kubernetes to leverage. But they have Chef and they’re a Ruby shop, I guess they’ll be good.
TBH, Kubernetes has some really rough edges. Helm charts aren’t that great and Kustomize gets real messy real fast.
- turtlebits 4y agoThe scope of their self-developed tool doesn't seem very large, it looks like it could be a wrapper around SSH. I've done similar things using a SSH library with python to deploy and run docker-compose yamls on multiple servers.
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoThere are many of these tools out there. When I was working for Technicolor Virdata some years ago, we’ve been heavily invested in https://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan https://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan. It was extensible, we had support for SoftLayer and IBM SCE, we had some patches to make the bootstrap and the kick command perform faster. But it was still slow and people didn’t like Ruby (I don’t mind it). Even back then I wasn’t a fan of doing a proactive ssh connection to the node. I always leaned towards the machine pulling artefacts and deploying them. Like Flux CD does.
- klooney 4y agoChef kind of scares me. It's such a tarpit, and it felt like abandonware five years ago