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The difference is that one is immutable and the other is not. One can be rolled back to earlier version while retaining user data and the other doesn't offer th
by ilbeeper 2y ago
The difference is that one is immutable and the other is not. One can be rolled back to earlier version while retaining user data and the other doesn't offer that ability.
- SR2Z 2y agoSure, but the GKE autoscaler will happily erase and recreate machines whenever it wants. Divergences from the base image are inherently limited because of that.
- ilbeeper 2y agoDespite the name, that's not what immutable distros are for. GKE won't let yet restore previous generation of configured and component versioned base image.