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Is K8s Too Complicated? 

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Re: Is K8s Too Complicated? 

#5
Right tool for the right job. Is K8s too complicated? For some use cases it is.

They probably should do a better job of discouraging certain use cases, but calling their elevator pitch “bullshit” is hyperbolic.

There are exceptions to every rule, but a good rule of thumb is cluster size. If you’re managing less than 25 servers than K8s is probably over kill. As you start to creep north of 40 servers K8s really starts to shine. The other place K8s really shines is dynamic load. I manage anywhere from 600-1000 16Gb VMs, I can’t imagine doing it without K8s.

If cluster size isn’t a good rule of thumb then application architectur probably is. If no one person in you company has a complete mental model of the application architecture or it is impossible because it is so complex, again container orchestration might be a good way to go.

Final point: If you’re struggling with K8s swallow your pride and buy a managed solution, then learn as you go.

Re: Is K8s Too Complicated? 

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Not sure if this was an accidental key press or something, but generally here we try to be constructive in our comments. "?" is a fairly ambiguous post to make, I'm not sure many people understand what it is you're questioning.

https://i.imgur.com/wJoo082.png

I imagine they're wondering about that symbol.

Re: Is K8s Too Complicated? 

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post #2

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Not sure if this was an accidental key press or something, but generally here we try to be constructive in our comments. "?" is a fairly ambiguous post to make, I'm not sure many people understand what it is you're questioning.

The last character in the post title is a weird Unicode character and shows as "OBJ" on my Android device.

The parent coment posted "?"

Seems like your OS can't render the character

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