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I am a little tired of commenters lazily flinging this every time something in the infrastructure world comes up that they don't fully understand. Something do
by quadrifoliate 3y ago
I am a little tired of commenters lazily flinging this every time something in the infrastructure world comes up that they don't fully understand. Something doesn't become word salad just because you don't know what it means.
I might have problems understanding something -- say, "Comparison of implementations of in-order traversal of an AVL tree in Scala v/s Clojure"; but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a clear and intelligible meaning to someone who gets it.
In this case, I understand the idea here somewhat even without looking at the project. Kubernetes has very flexible auto-scaling capabilities. This seems to be be somehow allowing it to scale across a bunch of VMs hosted using Proxmox, which is an open-source VM hosting platform. There is no word salad about it.
- glitchcrab 3y agoAgreed, the title was pretty self explanatory.
- jrockway 3y agoI have heard of Proxmox but didn't really know what it did, so I went to Wikipedia, which tells me: "Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE or PVE) is a hyper-converged infrastructure open-source software." This is a little buzzwordy. I am also not sure that something can be "a software".
- RamRodification 3y agoEnglish is not my first language but i think the "a" is for the infrastructure. It's software for a hyper-converged infrastructure. If you remove the "a", to me, it sounds like the software is hyper-converged instead. Which seems less correct. Anyway I agree. The very next couple of sentences describe it better in my opinion. Maybe they should put those two first: "It is a hosted hypervisor that can run operating systems including Linux and Windows on x64 hardware. It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers"