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Is Kubernetes Worth It?

by rauhl on 3/25/24, 9:33 PM with 6 comments

• by nijave on 3/25/24, 10:39 PM

  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.

• by rauhl on 3/25/24, 9:37 PM

  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.

• by JojoFatsani on 3/25/24, 9:37 PM

  What is the alternative they’re suggesting?

• by PaulHoule on 3/25/24, 10:20 PM

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