Define “worth it”
I define it as an opportunity cost to learning another technology or language that is in demand in the market. In other words, my perspective is from a career building (increasing total compensation, i.e. $) point of view.
Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
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Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#12I didn't get the memo that k8s has gone out of fashion since last year. If you're in devops, you will eventually have to deal with k8s.
There's no need to go very deep into it unless you want to, but you are expected in this day and age to have at least basic familiarity with it.
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#13For horizontal and automatic scaling, I don't see many other viable alternatives for managing networking, load balancing, configuration and scheduling.
Most server software these days have Kubernetes and helm charts available, since the industry giants focus on it, which means it's here to stay.
It might be worth getting a certification in Kubernetes orchestration management instead, like Rancher or Nomad (with Vault & Consul).
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#14No. Useless and overly complicated.
What's the alternative?
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#15Heya, there are free courses on Coursera you could take a look at - just to get a taste.
Since you mentioned you do ML and work with AWS, perhaps check out this free course on building containerised applications in AWS:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/containerized-apps-on-aws
It’s only 12 hours, so a minimal time investment. And from there you can then decide your next step.
Good luck! And happy new year ^_^
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#16Yes.
Kubernetes is for making portable infrastructure. It’s the “Docker” of networking, load balancing, configuration, and scheduling.
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#17No, if you are ok with Java you can use the classloader instead, I have been using hot-deploy on all my live projects for a decade now:
I can even release a new version of my sites without the online users noticing!
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#18I didn't get the memo that k8s has gone out of fashion since last year. If you're in devops, you will eventually have to deal with k8s. There's no need to go very deep into it unless you want to, but you are expected in this day and age to have at least basic familiarity with it.
That's not exactly true though. You can do "DevOps" and horizontal scaling (or simply no scaling) by other means too. K8s may be the best for large deployments overall, but it's not a requirement. Lots of companies run large scale services without k8s.
Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#19Re: Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
#20With your ML background I'd probably focus on things like AWS Sagemaker and going from dev to prod in a sensible fashion.