Re:Phippy Goes to the Zoo
by tshanmu on Thursday December 13, 2018 @05:12AM
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This actually achieves neither of the 2 objectives I think it's meant to achieve:
Kids will go, "what on earth are you talking about", or enjoy it as a pointless story and
Adults who try to understand kubernetes will go, why is this talking down to me? How do the meerkats keep the pods up, how do the fish talk to the pods, how does the vultures talk to the fish?
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You assume it's meant to explain K8s to kids, or teach adults about it. I don't believe it's either, more of a gimmick for the existing Kubernetes community.
If an adult (or a kid, for that matter) wants to really learn about Kubernetes, its inner workings etc, there's plenty of documentation and literature available which does explain how Pods are scheduled, what Services are and how they're implemented, etc.
I think the objective (at least of the printed version) is for Microsoft to have something unusual to hand out at their conference booths that will drive traffic to them.
Yeah, they ran out of the books very quickly. All of my married-with-young-kids coworkers picked up some stuffed animals and pins for their kids.