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Thanks to investing into k8s I was able to migrate a non trivial production with minimal downtime between cloud providers 3 times now, who offered us free credi

Thanks to investing into k8s I was able to migrate a non trivial production with minimal downtime between cloud providers 3 times now, who offered us free credits, without too much friction.

piva00 2y ago
At a past job I spent a lot of political capital, and time and effort trying to convince directors that to actualise their emergency plan of "move to another cloud in 30 days or less" in case of regulations changing (finance industry) we should invest in k8s. It is a large-ish company (some 5-6k employees when I worked there) and completely able to invest in rolling out k8s, even more when a couple of years after my first pitch managed k8s started to be deployed by cloud providers. I lost the battle, they hired some AWS Sales Engineer who eventually climbed into a director position and implemented a complete lock-in into AWS offerings without rolling out k8s. As far as I heard from former colleagues after 5 years out of there their AWS bill has increased substantially and there's no way out.