Re:Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
by apple4ever on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @07:04PM
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What is missing from this discussion is level of control and tradeoffs.
First, having a full level of control can be desirable.
Second, you trade off maintaining firmware levels on hardware and software levels on hardware to managing the way cloud providers build networking and servers themselves (and the cost control as well).
Maintaining your own hardware and keeping it up to date really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Its not hard to get right either, assuming you can hire any sort of decent system engineer.
First, having a full level of control can be desirable.
Second, you trade off maintaining firmware levels on hardware and software levels on hardware to managing the way cloud providers build networking and servers themselves (and the cost control as well).
Maintaining your own hardware and keeping it up to date really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Its not hard to get right either, assuming you can hire any sort of decent system engineer.