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Re:Kubernetes 1.18 by haolez on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:06PM (#22688925)
When I think about k8s complexity, I can only understand this argument if I'm the one dealing with the infrastructure required. If I have to install k8s in my servers, then I'll probably need to think hard about security, certificates, hardware failures, monitoring, alerting, etc. It's a lot of work.

However, if I use a managed k8s service, I probably don't have to think about any of that. I can focus on the metrics of my application, and not the cluster itself. At least, that's how I think it should work. I haven't used k8s in a while.

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Re:Kubernetes 1.18 by empath75 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:47PM (#22689185)
Honestly getting a cluster running is the easiest part. It’s all the add one like istio that make it complicated.
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Re:Kubernetes 1.18 by haolez on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @08:05PM (#22689687)
You don't need Istio if your application is simple. I think Istio makes more sense when your application makes heavy use of peer-to-peer pod connections. If you can get away with a simple queue as a bus, it should remain simple. I think!
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Re:Kubernetes 1.18 by rumanator on Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:57AM (#22691434)
> Honestly getting a cluster running is the easiest part. It’s all the add one like istio that make it complicated.

That's like saying running windows is the easy part, it's all the add-ons like Microsoft office that make it complicated.

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