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Is it better than sliced bread, no. But it does some things better than other systems. First, it feels small enough that I understand what’s going on while st
by owenmarshall 3y ago
Is it better than sliced bread, no. But it does some things better than other systems.
First, it feels small enough that I understand what’s going on while still providing valuable services out of the box - a web server, load balancer/proxy, etc.
But more importantly the pieces all play together to make a unified system: the load balancer can do layer 3 by interacting with the system firewall, httpd works with the built in ACME client for TLS. All those pieces benefit from being part of the system as a whole, by having very consistent tooling and support - things are named very consistently and share flags across the system, and are backed by very high quality manpages.
Simply put it’s not perfect, nor revolutionary, but it gets a lot of things right.