Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Pers...
by nugator on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:35PM
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Totally disagree. Our startup use Kubernetes and Google Cloud and shipped an MVP in a few months. No operations people only devs and devops. Kubernetes is not perfectly set up yet and the logging has failed sometimes but we ship code to production many times per day and are really happy about not having to care about infrastructure that much.
Three nodes and Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) goes a long way.
Exactly. I was following along with the article until he mentioned that startups are doing this. Using k8s at a startup (especially a startup building an MVP) is just like using microservices. It is a disservice to the business by technologists.
Building the monolith on heroku will get you to market faster.
Yagni. (Until you do, and thrn by all means pay off that technical debt.)