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I have been saying this to my customers for a long time, most projects do not really benefit from K8s but on the contrary, it is a huge operational/cost comprom
by AlexITC 4y ago
I have been saying this to my customers for a long time, most projects do not really benefit from K8s but on the contrary, it is a huge operational/cost compromise to use K8s for a monolith app that does simple CRUD operations where occasional downtime is actually acceptable.
In my last project, I removed the unnecessary complexity that K8s was bringing and went back to ansible scripts, which has worked nicely.
With another customer, we inherited a frontend application that was being deployed with K8s while vercel is a considerably simpler/faster alternative.
K8s certainly has its advantages but I'd bet that many projects using it do not gain much.
- rossdavidh 4y agoMy impression is that it makes deploying your 100th server much easier, at the cost of making your first several much harder. If you're going to have 100+ servers, that's probably worth it. If you're not (and most companies aren't), then it's like getting your CDL so that you can go to the grocery store in a semi-tractor trailer, when you should have driven there in a compact car.