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Terraform was a huge breath of fresh air after Cloudformation. If you ask me, deploying apps via k8s is even better.
Everyone wants a free lunch and for me, momentum + cloud vendor support + ultimately the Nomad Enterprise features that come free with K8s made the choice easy.
I worked at a hedge fund that also used nomad. The problem, however, is not how well it scales or whatever, but the fact that all the accompanying deployment info and literature is for kubernetes, and k8s has far more features. I like the quality of products from HashiCorp, but k8s is far, far, ahead of where nomad is. What I really want is better integration for Terraform and kubernetes. The current TF k8s support l…
Crossplane https://crossplane.io might be what you’re looking for with its bunch of controllers and a nice composition API. One of the best features is that you can bundle a CR to request a MySQL database and it will be satisfied with whatever config is in your cluster so that app only declares the need but not care how it’s done. Disclaimer: I’m one of the maintainers of Crossplane.
Off topic but... I've always wondered how Cloudflare can not charge for the bandwidth. Even the free plan is super generous (CDN, SSL, etc). How are they making a profit when AFAIK all other CDNs charge you for the bandwidth (and I assume they have to pay for to their providers)?
The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications and rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents. Use of the Service for serving video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited."
In other words, as soon as you start using significant CDN bandwidth for images, video, audio, etc. they will contact you and ask you to upgrade your account.
I worked at a hedge fund that also used nomad. The problem, however, is not how well it scales or whatever, but the fact that all the accompanying deployment info and literature is for kubernetes, and k8s has far more features. I like the quality of products from HashiCorp, but k8s is far, far, ahead of where nomad is. What I really want is better integration for Terraform and kubernetes. The current TF k8s support l…
Off topic but... I've always wondered how Cloudflare can not charge for the bandwidth. Even the free plan is super generous (CDN, SSL, etc). How are they making a profit when AFAIK all other CDNs charge you for the bandwidth (and I assume they have to pay for to their providers)?
They aren't. In Q1 they made a loss of $33M on $91M in revenue.
I worked at a hedge fund that also used nomad. The problem, however, is not how well it scales or whatever, but the fact that all the accompanying deployment info and literature is for kubernetes, and k8s has far more features. I like the quality of products from HashiCorp, but k8s is far, far, ahead of where nomad is. What I really want is better integration for Terraform and kubernetes. The current TF k8s support l…
"Kubernetes but with less stuff" is a valuable niche that I'm glad someone is targeting.
Cloudflare, make sure you upgrade to 0.11.3, the new scheduling behavior is awesome for large clusters. Also a massive warning to anyone wanting to use hard cpu limits and cgroups (they do work in nomad it’s just not trivial), they don’t work like anyone expects and need to be heavily tested.
are you serious? you've got a major company touting a technology and a key component of it is broken?
I have only tested it with Docker, again, that company Moby with this very little used software.
How dare their core systems have any systems that are not extremely simple to understand and have caveats.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven’t tested hard CPU quotas with Nomad but I suspect the issue mentioned above is due to cgroups/CFS and is also applicable to Kubernetes. See these slides for more details: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/try_except_/optimizing-kub...
I recall that there's been some improvements to CFS to fix this since 2018.
I had the exact same problem with Kubernetes (and even just straight up containers), I just want to make sure folks are extremely aware of how big of a footgun it is, and to really, really, really test it well.