Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale

Re:Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale by throwbacktictac on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:15AM (#17448384)

I was curious about what problem was being solved too. I can't imagine what a chicken restaurant needs with a distributed k8's cluster.

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Re:Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale by organsnyder on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @08:08AM (#17449452)

I'm wondering the same thing, and it looks like a lot of other people are too—from the bottom of the article:

> Edit 7/2/18 — since writing this, many readers have asked “why not just use the cloud? Why computing at the Edge?”. We have realized that we did not provide much context about why we’re doing what we’re doing, so we will follow up with an post about that soon.

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Re:Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale by shaklee3 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:42AM (#17451091)

They somewhat cleared it up in a comment. Low latency was one reason.

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