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> Ubuntu for dev servers I didn't understand this section. Ubuntu servers as dev environment, what do you mean? As in an environment to deploy things onto, or

• hahnchen 3y ago
  seems like the latter given "Originally I tried making the dev servers the same base OS that our Kubernetes nodes ran on, thinking this would make the development environment closer to prod"
  • runiq 3y ago
    But I thought the whole point of the container ecosystem was to abstract away the OS layer. Given that the kernel is backwards compatible to a fault, shouldn't it be enough to have a kernel that is as least as recent as the one on your k8s platform (provided that you're running with the default kernel or something close to it)?
    • Frivolous9421 3y ago
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• brainzap 3y ago
  My take from this was more: being uniform reduced overhead of maintaining. Being able to write a bash script that runs on ever machine is nice.