How do you people even keep up with this? I'm going back to cybersecurity after trying DevOps for a year, it's not for me. I miss my sysadmin days, things were simple back then and worked. Maybe I'm just getting old and my cognitive abilities are declining. It seems to me that the current tech scene doesn't reward simple.
> It seems to me that the current tech scene doesn't reward simple. A deal with the devil was made. The C suite gets to tell a story that k8s practices let you suck every penny out of the compute you already paid for. Modern devs get to do constant busy work adding complexity everywhere, creating job security and opportunities to use fun new toys. "Here's how we're using AI to right size our pods! Never mind the actu…
Kubernetes is incredibly reliable compared to traditional infrastructure. It eliminates a ton of the configuration management dependency hellscape and inconsistent application deployments that traditional infrastructure entails.
Immutable containers provide a major benefit to development velocity and deployment reliability. They are far faster to pull and start than deploying to VMs, which end up needing some kind of annoying deployment pipeline involving building images or having some kind of complex and failure-prone deployment system.
Does Kubernetes have its downsides? Yeah, it’s complex overkill for small deployments or monolithic applications. But to be honest, there’s a lot of complexity to configuration management on traditional VMs with a lot of bad, not-so-gracefully aging tooling (cough…Chef Software)
And who is really working for a company that has a small deployment? I’d say that most medium-sized tech companies can easily justify the complexity of running a kubernetes cluster.
Networking can be complex with Kubernetes, but it’s only as complex as your service architecture.
These days there are more solutions than ever that remove a lot of the management burden but leave you with all the benefits of having a cluster, e.g., Talos Linux.