Re:Benchmark results of Kubernetes network plugins over 10Gb...
by throw2016 on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:45PM
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This is a nice idea about abstraction but without knowledge you cannot run anything professionally with any degree of reliability or confidence. What happens when things break? Google, Facebook and any company dependent on delivery have full fledged networking and ops teams.
All these wrappers still require time investment in knowledge, setup and configuration. The cost for users knowing the wrappers but not the tech is being locked in a platform, if they know the tech even if Kubernetes crashes and burns their knowledge and time investment remains valuable.
Before Wireguard it was extremely difficult to get near line speed with encryption, now accessible to all. If this is not 'value' what is? Given this post is about networking benchmarks this is a huge deal. If people stop creating these kind of networking tools and technologies then there is going to be nothing to wrap.
If Wireguard doesn't write the wrapper themselves they have no one to blame. People need to understand that the hard/cool part and the valuable part aren't the same and if you are too cool to create value then you can't complain about other people taking it.