Re:Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale
by coffeesn0b on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @03:25PM
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We deal with a challenge of frequent network outages or latency issues... keep in mind that we have locations out in the middle of nowhere with no QoS. There are a variety of loads at the restaurant that require low latency and high up time. On site K8s clusters were a natural fit for that solution.
Trust me, it would have been way easier to just hook this stuff up to the cloud :-P . I still dream that we will be able to some day.
Re:Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale
by karmicthreat on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @07:48AM
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Plenty of large chains have had IoT like systems since the 90s or earlier. Everything in the kitchen runs on presets.
It absolutely smells of over-engineering, though. There are a lot easier ways of pushing software out than maintaining k8s locally; and they're almost certainly going to need to build a system which manages and monitors all these clusters...