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EC2 provides the *d VMs that have SSDs with high IOPS at much lower cost than network SSDs. They are ephemeral, but so is laptop and its SSD - it can loose the data. From AWS docs "If you stop, hibernate, or terminate an instance, data on instance store volumes is lost.".
> Making Kubernetes good is inherently impossible, a project in putting (admittedly high quality) lipstick on a pig. So well put, my good sir, this describes exactly my feelings with k8s. It always starts off all good with just managing a couple of containers to run your web app. Then before you know it, the devops folks have decided that they need to put a gazillion other services and an entire software-defined netw…
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If you spin up Kubernetes for "a couple of containers to run your web app", I think you're doing something wrong in the first place, also coupled with your comment about adding SDN to Kubernetes. People use Kubernetes for way too small things, and it sounds like you don't have the scale for actually running Kubernetes.
Doing Kubernetes like doing Agile is mandatory nowadays. I've been asked to package a 20 line worth of bash script as docker image so it can be delivered via CI/CD pipeline via Kubernetes pods in cloud. Value is not that I got job done at a day's notice. It is black mark that I couldn't package it as per industry best practices. Not doing would mean out of job/work. Whether it is happening correctly is not something…
That's basically why k8s is so compelling. It's tech is fine but it's a social technology that is known and can be rallied behind, that has consistent patterns that apply to anything you might dream of making "cloud native". What you did to get this script available for use will closely mirror how anyone else would also get any piece of software available.
Meanwhile conventional sys-op stuff was cobbling together "right sized" solutions that work well for the company, maybe. These threads are overrun with "you might not need k8s" and "use the solution that fits your needs", but man, I pity the companies doing their own frontiers-ing to explore their own bespoke "simple" paths.
I do think you are on to something with there not being food taste making, with not good oversight always.
I'm not sure if this is the direction the OP is going, but I would love to see a world where local small-time investors can get a bank loan, rent a facility, set up a bunch of computers, and run open-source cloud software on them that provides 95% of the features that most businesses need. Running a cloud data center could be a business like operating a self-storage facility or a car wash. Small investors love this k…
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Yeah if someone says that k8s is costing them energy they are either using it very, very incorrectly, or they just don't know what they are talking about.
Running a Kubernetes deployment requires running many additional orchestration services that bare-metal deployments (whether running on-prem or in the cloud) do not.
Also, those simpler deployments usually burn more money per utilized compute, or involve reinventing 80% of kids, often badly
There are plenty of alternatives out there. I built https://shellbox.dev , which gives you instant vms via ssh where unlike exe you pay only for what you use-- scale to zero. It is also regular linux, supporting vscode and zed remote, Nested virtualization, etc. If you're looking to invest im fine with only $5M :)
I don't want to make that public, it's my way of an isolated dev environment and it runs on my private raspberry behind my tv. Costs me nothing.
I hope you have a good success with your service.
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I know that "resume-driven development" exists, where the tradeoffs between approaches aren't about the technical fit of the solution but the career trajectory. I've seen people making plain workstation preparation scripts using Rust, only to have something to flex about in interviews. I'm not surprised even in the slightest that DevOps workers will slap k8s on everything, to show "real industry experience" in a job…
there are alsp people with devops title that do not know anything else than the hammer, and then everything is a hammer problem. I mean, I worked with people who were suprised that you can run more applications inside ec2 vm than just 1 app.
Every company used to have a bespoke collection of build, deployment, monitoring, scaling, etc concerns. Everyone had their own practices, their own wikis to try to make sense of what they had.
I think we critically under-appreciate that k8s is a social technology that is broadly applicable. Not just for hosting containers, but as a cloud-native form of thinking, where it becomes much easier to ask: what do we have here, and is it running well, and to have systems that are helping you keep that all on track (autonomic behavior/control loops).
I see such rebellion & disdain for where we are now, but so few people who seem able to recognize and grapple with what absolute muck we so recently have crawled out of.
Ok, what am I missing? exe.dev says: "$20/month for your VMs One price, no surprises. You get 2 CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk". Fine, their UI is different, but I don't see any real difference from other providers.
On that machine you can (easily) make an arbitrary number of VMs.
Each VM has their own URL that you can share (or make private).
See features: https://exe.dev/docs/customization
> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software. Economists would call this an instance of Jevons paradox. Each of us will write more programs, for fun and for work. There is already so much software out there, which isn't used by anyone. Just take a look at any appstore. I don't understand why we are so obsessed with cranking out even more, whereas the obvious usecase for LLMs s…
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Author here. Almost every VC rejected us when we went to get seed funding for Tailscale, we knew none of them. Friends of friends of acquaintances got us meetings. Fundraising is very possible for you if you are committed to building a business. Most important thing is don't think of fundraising as the goal, it is just a tool for building a business. (And some businesses don't need VC funding to work. Some do.) The b…
How did you eventually get funding after those initial rejections? What changed?