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Is Kubernetes Worth It?
- rauhl 3y agoI think that it is. The article does raise some good points to consider, but at this point in my experience with it I believe that a lot of the complexity of Kubernetes is not something it introduces but rather something it exposes: it was already there, just maybe not explicitly. Likewise with a lot of the operational costs and so forth. OTOH, I do think that now that it has shown the way, there is room for both improvement and replacement.
- JojoFatsani 3y agoWhat is the alternative they’re suggesting?
- PaulHoule 3y agoNo. Like OKRs, Kube is something Google released on the world to kneecap potential competitors.
- MissTake 3y agoNo idea what you’re talking about. We use Kubernetes on-prem using MickroK8s because it was easy to deploy and allowed me to write a full API server with scalability with no prior experience. What “potential competitors” were kneecapped here?
- brodouevencode 3y agoDon't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Seriously though k8s is Google-tier engineering, and probably works well for them. It works well for many organizations that have those levels of resources. But probably overkill for most.
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- nijave 3y agoIs running your own data center worth it? Running ESXi? Using AWS? Rewriting everything in rust? There are tradeoffs to be considered I think it's more compelling to run/use k8s when you don't already have a mature infrastructure strategy that handles DNS/traffic/service discovery/secrets/persistent storage/auto healing/rolling deploys.