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Does anyone know of whether k8s is making inroads in "edge"/low resource compute environments? It seems like despite the work of companies like k3s people still
by hardwaresofton 2y ago
Does anyone know of whether k8s is making inroads in "edge"/low resource compute environments? It seems like despite the work of companies like k3s people still think of k8s as too "heavy weight" for the "edge".
- sofixa 2y agoNope, architecturally it's fundamentally unsuited. Way too many moving parts, high resource consumption, specific networking requirements unsuited for many Edge scenarios where you often have flakey or failing networking, surprisingly low limits in terms of total numbers of nodes/pods, etc etc. Many have tried forcing it (when all you know is Kube, everything looks like a Kube problem) though.
- _joel 2y agoYes https://www.appvia.io/blog/chick-fil-a-kubernetes-success-story https://www.appvia.io/blog/chick-fil-a-kubernetes-success-st...
- hardwaresofton 2y agoAhhh I’m familiar with the Chick Fil A use case! But they’re running NUCs — I almost think of that as a different kind of larger edge… distributed/federated but not really resource constrained. It is certainly an “edge“ though.