To me the most important quote in the whole writeup is this "Our new stack is boring.". When you are creating a solution to a problem, boring is good. Strive to be boring. Only be exciting when you must.
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
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Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm actually not using kubernetes because I find it too complex. But I'm looking for a solution for that problem and I haven't found one, so I was wondering what OP uses. Sorry, but I don't want to "click in a UI". And it is certainly not something you can just automate with 30 lines of bash. If you can, please elaborate.
> And it is certainly not something you can just automate with 30 lines of bash. If you can, please elaborate. Maybe not literally 30.. I didn't bother actually writing it. Also bash was just a single example. It's way less terraform code to do the same thing. You just need an ELB backed by an autoscaling group. That's not all that much to setup. That gets you the two loadbalanced servers and zero downtime deploys. W…
> You just need an ELB backed by an autoscaling group
Sure, and then you can neither 1.) test your setup locally nor 2.) easily move to another cloud provider. So that doesn't really fit what I asked.
If they answer is "there is nothing, just accept the vendor lock-in" then fine, but please don't reply with "30 lines of bash" and make me have expectations. :-(
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#1435 years ago everyone and their uncle would swear that kubernetes was the new way of doing things and by not jumping on it you were missing out and potentially harming your career.
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#144I believe CloudRun is based on KNative which runs on Kubernetes. Thus, you’re still running on Kubernetes, it’s just abstracted away from you.
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#145I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate “cloud shit”, and a small part of me is convinced that literally no one actually likes it, and everyone is playing a joke on me. I have set up about a dozen rack mount servers in my life, installing basically every flavor of Unix and Linux and message busses under the sun in the process, but I still get confused by all the Kubectl commands and GCP integration with it. I might j…
I am running VPSes at our small startup-ish company on IaaS cloud. Every time we get a new guy I have to explain that we are already „in cloud” there is no need to „move to cloud”.
Do they mean PAAS vs IAAS when they say "move to cloud"?
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm always kind of blown away by experiences like this. Admittedly, I've been using Kubernetes since the early days and I manage an Infra team that operates a couple thousand self-managed Kubernetes clusters so... expert blindness at work. Before that I did everything from golden images to pushing changes via rsync and kicking a script to deploy. Maybe it's because I adopted early and have grown with the technology i…
I would buy the book. Just translate all "new language" concepts into well known concepts from networking and system administration. It would be best seller. If I would only have a penny for each time I wasted hours trying to figure out what something in "modern IT" is, just to figure out that I already knew what it is, but it was well hidden under layers of newspeak...
The book I read on K8S written by a core maintainer made is very clear.
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#147I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate “cloud shit”, and a small part of me is convinced that literally no one actually likes it, and everyone is playing a joke on me. I have set up about a dozen rack mount servers in my life, installing basically every flavor of Unix and Linux and message busses under the sun in the process, but I still get confused by all the Kubectl commands and GCP integration with it. I might j…
Or if you got a static ip and fast up speed, then just port forward 80, 443 and start hosting your self. Even an old Intel Mac Book pro from 2000's with 4 GB of RAM may not be that hot running MacOS, but install Debian with no X. It is running smooth as a whistle, while running several conduit matrix, haraka, zone-mta, ice cast, nginx with no issues. WebRTC/TUN/STUN becomes an issue with the nginx config. May conside…
> It is running smooth as a whistle
... until you get hit by a DDoS attack. Not much you can do about it unless your ISP offers protection, or you end up going for Cloudflare or the like instead of exposing your IP and ports.
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#148I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate “cloud shit”, and a small part of me is convinced that literally no one actually likes it, and everyone is playing a joke on me. I have set up about a dozen rack mount servers in my life, installing basically every flavor of Unix and Linux and message busses under the sun in the process, but I still get confused by all the Kubectl commands and GCP integration with it. I might j…
I'm always kind of blown away by experiences like this. Admittedly, I've been using Kubernetes since the early days and I manage an Infra team that operates a couple thousand self-managed Kubernetes clusters so... expert blindness at work. Before that I did everything from golden images to pushing changes via rsync and kicking a script to deploy. Maybe it's because I adopted early and have grown with the technology i…
Absolutely, a reasonably sophisticated scalable app platform looks like a half-baked and undocumented reimagination of Kubernetes.
Admittedly: The ecosystem is huge and less is more in most cases, but the foundation is cohesive and sane.
Would love to read the k8s for greybeards book.
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would buy the book. Just translate all "new language" concepts into well known concepts from networking and system administration. It would be best seller. If I would only have a penny for each time I wasted hours trying to figure out what something in "modern IT" is, just to figure out that I already knew what it is, but it was well hidden under layers of newspeak...
The book I read on K8S written by a core maintainer made is very clear.
Which book would that be, out of interest?
Re: I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would buy the book. Just translate all "new language" concepts into well known concepts from networking and system administration. It would be best seller. If I would only have a penny for each time I wasted hours trying to figure out what something in "modern IT" is, just to figure out that I already knew what it is, but it was well hidden under layers of newspeak...
The book I read on K8S written by a core maintainer made is very clear.
Please don't mention it's name, we don't want anyone else reading it..