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That whole CloudNative industry seems to be going downhill since the end of the free-money era. It is surprising that it took that long. Very few companies rea
by goalonetwo 3y ago
That whole CloudNative industry seems to be going downhill since the end of the free-money era.
It is surprising that it took that long. Very few companies really have the need to run at scale distributed systems on K8S.
But as soon as you get into that world, you suddenly need an operational team of 15 people to manage the 50000 moving pieces in that ecosystem.
- spicyusername 3y agoI've worked with Kubernetes extensively since it became popular. Of the maybe hundred of companies I've worked with trying to onboard to Kubernetes, I don't think a single one really had a use case that justified the increased complexity. Kubernetes seems so great until you're suddenly drowning in YAML, un-upgraded clusters out of their support window, the need for an unbelievable amount of extra tooling (e.g. ArgoCD, Helm, CSI plugins, Operators), etc. Plenty of places made it work by paying for huge teams to manage it, but deploying software on regular old Linux servers is fine for most people with just a small amount of discipline. Use boring technology.
- abhiyerra 3y agoYou don't actually need most of that additional tech. Github Actions + Managed Kubernetes + Helm is solid. Everything else can be additive as needed. ArgoCD is largely useful for deploying to multi single tenant customer installations, but overkill if you have a single prod cluster for example.