Is Kubernetes Worth It?

3 points by rauhl 2 years ago | 6 comments

nijave 2 years ago |

Is 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.

rauhl 2 years ago |

I 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 2 years ago |

What is the alternative they’re suggesting?

PaulHoule 2 years ago |

No. Like OKRs, Kube is something Google released on the world to kneecap potential competitors.

brodouevencode 2 years ago | |

Don'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.

MissTake 2 years ago | |

No 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?