Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

Looks like the docs assume the management of a single cluster. What if you want to manage multiple/distinct clusters from the same uc client/management env?

This would have been my choice had it existed three months ago. Now it feels like I learned kubernetes in vain xD

Uncloud supports having multiple contexts (think - clusters) in the same configuration file, or you can also use separate config files (via --uncloud-config attribute).

https://uncloud.run/docs/cli-reference/uc_ctx

The move to VMs at first and then to the cloud were also marketed by existing companies with huge budgets where people who made decisions had the “No one ever got fired for choosing $LargeWellknownCompany that is in the upper right corner of Gartner’s Magic Square”.

I love Docker. I think everyone going to EKS before they need to is dumb. There are dozens of services out there that let you give it a Docker container and just run it.

And I think that spending energy avoiding “cloud lock-in” is dumb. Choose your infrastructure and build. Migrations are going to be a pain at any decent scale anyway and you are optimizing for the wrong thing if you are worried about lock in.

As an individual especially in today’s market, it’s foolish (not referring to you - any developer or adjacent) not to always be thinking of what keeps you the most employable if the rug gets pulled from under you.

As a decision maker who is held accountable for architecture and when things go wrong they look at or when the next person has to come along to maintain it, they are going to look at me like I am crazy if I choose a non industry standard solution just because I was too lazy to choose the industry standard.

Again I don’t mean that you are being “lazy”. That’s how people think.

But if I were hiring someone - and I’m often interviewing people for cloudy/devOps type roles. Why would I hire someone with experience with a Docker orchestration framework I never heard of over someone who knew K8s?

And the final question you should ask yourself is why are you really doing this?

Is it to scratch an itch out of passion and it’s something that you feel the world should have? If so in all sincerity, I wish you luck on your endeavor. You might get lucky like Bun just did. I had effusive praise for them doing something out of passion instead of as VC bait.

Are you doing it for financial gain? If so, you have to come up with a strategy to overcome resistance from people like Ive outlined.

I feel the same. I feel like it's a me problem. I was able to build and run massive systems at scale and never used kubernetes. Then, all of a sudden, around 2020, any time I wanted to build or run or do anything at scale, everywhere said I should just use kubernetes. And then when I wanted to do anything with docker in production, not even at scale, everywhere said I should just use kubernetes.

Then there was a brief period around 2021 where everyone - even kubernetes fans - realised it was being used everywhere, even when it didn't need to be. "You don't need k8s" became a meme.

And now, here we are, again, lots of people saying "just use k8s for everything".

I've learned it enough to know how to use it and what I can do with it. I still prefer to use literally anything else apart from k8s when building, and the only time I've ever felt k8s has been really needed to solve a problem is when the business has said "we're using k8s, deal with it".

It's like the Javascript or WordPress of the infrastructure engineering world - it became the lazy answer, IMO. Or the me problem angle: I'm just an aged engineer moaning at having to learn new solutions to old problems.