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Kubernetes gets a lot of shit on HN but for all of its challenges it has proven to be a fantastic method to abstract many of the idiosyncrasies of hosting on-pr

by jcims 3y ago

Kubernetes gets a lot of shit on HN but for all of its challenges it has proven to be a fantastic method to abstract many of the idiosyncrasies of hosting on-prem vs various cloud providers. I've worked for two companies now with 8 figure monthly cloud spend and hundreds/thousands of applications operating in one or more of the main cloud providers and k8s has been essential in making that happen. Teams can migrate to an on-premise hosted option if they want, then transition to cloud if/when it makes sense, or just stay where they are.

stavros 3y ago
Takes notes "Kubernetes has been essential in making 8-figure monthly cloud spend happen"
- windexh8er 3y ago
  The last startup I was in was obsessed with putting everything into k8s for no apparent reason. Even the product they were selling, which most customers hated because it forced our customer base to either have to deal with the pain of paying for k8s because they had no need or intention to use it other than for our product or work with a cross-functional team which now created a time sink and dependency that wouldn't have been there otherwise. The best though was when I ran across someone in the org trying to run a single container to run a periodic job in its own cluster. They spent half the day trying to get it to work with ingress. You can imagine how it came to a head when the company realized they were spending hundreds of thousands per month on idle clusters in AWS.
  - immibis 3y ago
    One company I worked at was obsessed with k8s for a while, on a local arrangement of about 4 servers, each build would start up a new container on kubernetes and rebuild an entire operating system from scratch.
    - immibis 3y ago
      clarification: the thing being built was an operating system. It didn't build an operating system to run the real build on.
- jcims 3y ago
  When you’re spending billions of dollars on data center refresh, it’s a bargain.

by jcims 3y ago

stavros 3y ago

Takes notes "Kubernetes has been essential in making 8-figure monthly cloud spend happen"

windexh8er 3y ago
The last startup I was in was obsessed with putting everything into k8s for no apparent reason. Even the product they were selling, which most customers hated because it forced our customer base to either have to deal with the pain of paying for k8s because they had no need or intention to use it other than for our product or work with a cross-functional team which now created a time sink and dependency that wouldn't have been there otherwise. The best though was when I ran across someone in the org trying to run a single container to run a periodic job in its own cluster. They spent half the day trying to get it to work with ingress. You can imagine how it came to a head when the company realized they were spending hundreds of thousands per month on idle clusters in AWS.
- immibis 3y ago
  One company I worked at was obsessed with k8s for a while, on a local arrangement of about 4 servers, each build would start up a new container on kubernetes and rebuild an entire operating system from scratch.
  - immibis 3y ago
    clarification: the thing being built was an operating system. It didn't build an operating system to run the real build on.
jcims 3y ago
When you’re spending billions of dollars on data center refresh, it’s a bargain.