Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
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Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#2Hoping this helps with the Kubernetes learning curve. We've just started migrating and keeping track of the terminology has been tough.
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#3Hoping this helps with the Kubernetes learning curve. We've just started migrating and keeping track of the terminology has been tough.
agreed, it's surprisingly hard to get your head around initially. minikube helps me personally.
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#4I used this to get an idea how K8s looked when I wanted to migrate ~500 lines of docker compose YAML config to k8s.
The result was sufficiently confusing that we threw it away, but it was helpful to get an idea what we were looking at, and why. We rebuilt the stack from hand, using all the files from the kompose tool as a guide/reference.
Later we found that kubectl can dump yaml, I found `kubectl .... -o=yaml[ ...]` to be super helpful, for any command you run from the tutorial or elsewhere, it'll generate you the equivalent YAML which you can commit/apply at your leisure.
I'm glad the tool existed, but idiomatic stuff in docker-compose is unidomatic in k8s (namely secret handling is completely different) which is a hurdle, and the "links" concept as used in docker-compose is essentially absent from k8s for our purposes (and, replaced wth much, much better and granular dns services and "expose"s)
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#5Hoping this helps with the Kubernetes learning curve. We've just started migrating and keeping track of the terminology has been tough.
Is there a reason to go from docker-compose to kubernetes?
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
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Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#7Hoping this helps with the Kubernetes learning curve. We've just started migrating and keeping track of the terminology has been tough.
agreed, it's surprisingly hard to get your head around initially. minikube helps me personally.
I work on a team who wants to help make this easier. What are the concepts that you think are the most complex?
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#8Hoping this helps with the Kubernetes learning curve. We've just started migrating and keeping track of the terminology has been tough.
This tool kompose helped me when I did my first POC on kubernetes since it allowed me to get up and running with something without having to study all the new abstractions and terminology in kubernetes, but pretty quickly I ended up going back over the generated yml files line by line and manually changing stuff. Overall still a helpful tool since many people use Compose in development but need to eventually migrate to kubernetes for production.
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#9This looks really well put together and easy to understand. A lot of the people I've worked with understand Docker-Compose well. The Compose model seems to stick well in the mind.
One of the nice side effects of this tool will be mapping existing Compose knowledge into the Kubernetes config model. It's like a mini translator.
I have a feeling that this will make a big difference in the usage of MiniKube.
Re: Show HN: Go from Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with a simple tool
#10Hoping this helps with the Kubernetes learning curve. We've just started migrating and keeping track of the terminology has been tough.
I actually just wrote an article that talks about all these complexities, and how micro-PaaS (things like hyper.sh, dokku, and nanobox.io) address a lot of them.
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-micro-paas-and-why-its-the-fu...