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Re:The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes by gtirloni on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:41PM (#16286648)
> What is so great about running your infrastructure on a platform that has no intention of ensuring long-term stability?

Kubernetes uses API versioning and takes backward compatibility very seriously for stable APIs.

Regarding LTS, these discussions are happening and increasing in number as time passes. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXBjA2hH-CQ

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Re:The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes by jrochkind1 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:54PM (#16288515)
That's a really important review that is not showing up in the rest of this lengthy discussion.

The only way frequent upgrades are possibly sane is if you take backwards compat very very very seriously, and succeed at doing so. If users of k8 think it's doing that, that's important info.

(I think many of us are lately getting burned by a lot of open source software that _doesn't_ succeed very well at backwards compat (whether they're trying or not, sometimes it's not clear), _and_ expects you to upgrade all the time).

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