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Re: Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably

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Has to be a good year or so? Been a while. AWS is the new one, just started a few weeks ago.

My systems are all on physical hardware we own, hence I don't really pay a lot of attention to the latest and spiffiest in hosted platforms.

You probably should :)

Re: Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably

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I don't see why - I have my GCE cluster running fine with zero maintenance work.

Zero maintenance work implies you are not doing security patches or upgrades, so as soon as you have a problem, not only will you be left holding the now broken pieces, nobody will have any reason to help or support you, unless you pay them $$$$$$'s(and even then.... maybe not). I hope whatever you are running under k8s isn't crucial or important, and I really hope I'm not a customer of whatever you "operate". Mainte…

I second to this. Setting up K8S is a walk in the part.

Upgrading it is hard. Especially with stuff like Kafka/ZooKeeper run on a K8S cluster.

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