Re:The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
by Twirrim on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:49AM
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After watching the deployment team trying to keep up with Docker and their ridiculous pace of breaking changes, and then eventual decision to move entirely away from Docker for containers; I really understand their decision not to want to touch k8s with a 10 ft pole.
If the choice is between "building features based around business needs so other teams can make more awesome stuff" and "throwing lots of dev time at just chasing docker/k8s/whatever", why on earth would they want to choose the latter?
Re:The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
by jrochkind1 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:28PM
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Especially cause then you've got to jump 3 significant versions, to get another 9 months of reprieve.
All our best clients are on a 12 or 24 month upgrade cycles. I need to be confident I can deliver them the latest version of their project knowing there's only regular security updates required over then next 1-2 years.
While I'd love to be doing continuous deployment and multiple production feature deliveries a day - that's not how the business I work at makes their money.
I can live with Ubuntu's 5 year LTS policy, I can't work with a "you might have to do significant rework after just 9 months" platform.