Re:Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?
by cassianoleal on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:01AM
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Why is it worse on the mac than on Windows? Legit question here, I haven't run Windows in many years so wouldn't know.
I find developing on k8s on the mac just fine. Most of the time I either just run the Docker for Desktop k8s feature, or fire up a kind cluster.
kind fits really well with VS Code's Remote - Containers extension for a completely isolated, all batteries included dev experience.
Year old experience: minikube requires root if you want to run directly on the host, without a VM layer. Every couple of months it goes into a borked state, which is nigh impossible to debug and sometimes hard to recreate from scratch, possibly due to the root issue above. Got a little luckier with Ubuntu and microk8.
what's so hard about k3s, kubespray or minikube? the only problem k8s has, that without a linux dev machine you are going through the vm pain. but anything else is just simple.
btw. using mac sucks when trying to develop with local k8s. windows is better/okish, but it's best to run directly on linux.