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A comment on Ask HN: What are the disadvantages of Docker?.

Re:Ask HN: What are the disadvantages of Docker? by x0x0 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @06:28PM (#16893727)
kubernetes: SO MUCH COMPLEXITY.

If you have a giant app spread across multiple microservices, it definitely could make sense.

For an app I worked on, that was basically divided into two classes of instances: front end rails, and back end api in python/pylons, it was an utter waste of time and energy. Just go with EBS plus a nice base ami and build something useful with all the time you would have wasted on k8s.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the disadvantages of Docker? by imauld on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:32PM (#16894126)
For a setup like that, yeah k8s is probably overkill unless you're planning to further decompose the application.

But FWIW k8s != docker. Kubernetes is a piece of software for orchestrating containers and not only docker containers. Most people that are using k8s are using docker but I don't think most people using docker are using k8s (just a guess).

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