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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by spottybanana on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:48AM (#22662728)
You're betting on the technology demand to move to certain direction. To me it feels like investing in stocks, but instead of betting with your money you are betting with your time and brain cycles invested. What makes you so confident that this piece of technology will flourish compared to so many others?
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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by michaelt on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:09AM (#22664819)
Not the best analogy, IMHO

If the price of a stock or house or investment have been rising for two years, it's risen in cost to get into, and you might never see the gains people have seen in the past; I doubt you'll ever get a bitcoin for a dollar again!

But if job adverts for a new tech have been rising for two years, it doesn't cost any more to learn than on the day it was released. Maybe less, in fact, as there will be more tutorials and more experts to learn from.

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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by bigj0n on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:59AM (#22663152)
Kuburnetes is lightweight, extensible and based on open standards, which is the recipe for a long-term solution in this space. It also has first class support in all of the major cloud providers and has an established tooling ecosystem around it.
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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by geerlingguy on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:24AM (#22664358)
I'll agree with everything here besides 'lightweight'.
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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by rumanator on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:42PM (#22667909)
> I'll agree with everything here besides 'lightweight'.

Kubernetes is pretty lean. It does require a significant mental load to get up and running, but that's mostly due to how it forces developers to venture into the old and largely unfamiliar sysadmin territory, where you need to pay attention to more stuff other than the compiler finishing a build job.

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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by aliswe on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:05PM (#22665314)
I also take some exception to that, but to be fair I've hward that it fits into a single, 40MB binary...
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Re:Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kube... by dillonmckay on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:15AM (#22663260)
Especially as the labor market is about to be flooded with devops k8s folks, looking to apply their skills.
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