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Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Pers... by marmaduke on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:27AM (#18129218)
but the situation could be the reverse: I replace someone who did a pile of k8s and didn't document anything, and while I could orchestrate the whole with libvirt recipes in my sleep, I wouldn't even know how to look up the command

> kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

so familiarity is not a good argument here

Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Pers... by ownagefool on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:38AM (#18129573)
True. In order to know kubernetes, you need to know kubernetes. But the point is at least it's a framework rather than someone you or I came up with and never wrote down. But if you don't know it, you don't know it. The question is, is learning it useful?
Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Pers... by mmt on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:16PM (#18135294)
> The question is, is learning it useful?

Even that question is too broadly posed. The question is, is learning it in addition to[1] the previously-standard tools useful?

[1] In the context of the article, this might be "instead of", which presents a much lower bar.

Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Pers... by rconti on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:24PM (#18135646)
I don't see how libvert is easier to learn than kubernetes.

Neither one is obvious to a sysadmin who hasn't worked in either world.

Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Pers... by marmaduke on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:29PM (#18142316)
I meant that familiarity with a framework isn’t an argument. Libvirt isn’t doing exactly the same thing as k8s and it isn’t easier or harder