Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
by marcinzm on Saturday March 23, 2019 @12:22AM
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So now the non-engineer needs to understand snapshots, ensuring snapshots don't break, ssh, roll back, etc. That's assuming the bad upgrade didn't leave any damage behind (like DB data, etc.). And assuming they didn't lose the post-it they wrote the CLI credentials on since you easily can't reset those unlike Heroku.
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Snapshots are typically part of the provider's web management interface and are basically the first thing anybody who makes changes to anything should learn how to use.
Moreover, if you're having someone else manage your systems and they upgrade them, now what do you do when the new version causes problems?
I ran into an issue recently where newer systems default to a newer version of a protocol but the implementation of the newer protocol has a major bug the old one didn't. When that happens on your systems you roll back until you can solve the issue. When it happens on systems managed by someone else, better hope you can identify and solve the issue quickly because in the meantime your system is broken.