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Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by StreamBright on Friday May 01, 2020 @12:27PM (#23043727)
Have you had any serious yet? If you are on the happy path does not really matter what you use.
Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by brianwawok on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:43PM (#23045192)
Any serious what? I am running a mildly successful SaaS business on hosted kubernetes, yes.
Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by StreamBright on Friday May 01, 2020 @04:53PM (#23046359)
Sorry, HN made me retry couple of times. Any serious troubles with Kubernetes. Have you had any of those?
Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by brianwawok on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:50PM (#23048067)
No I have not. Going on 3 years now?
Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by StreamBright on Saturday May 02, 2020 @03:23AM (#23050035)
Great. So you do not have any experience with the worst-case scenario. That is exactly my point. I would like to hear your opinion once you fixed an outage that is caused by K8s.
Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by brianwawok on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:25PM (#23053325)
Well what is this outage caused by?

Not understanding how k8s work, or actual provider screwing up?

if the former - I try to read carefully and test my workloads in a test cluster before I do it in prod.

if the latter, I think google has excellent operational excellence.

This is like saying you wouldn't take driving advice from me until I total a few cars. Perhaps I didn't total a few cars because I make good driving decisions?

Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by StreamBright on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:39PM (#23055148)
An outage that is caused by k8s. You can pick a random from this list. https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories

>>This is like saying you wouldn't take driving advice from me until I total a few cars

No, I am saying you do not have enough experience with k8s. That is all. Totaling a car implying you are driving, using k8s implying that whoever wrote that particular part of k8s is driving. You have some control but ultimately you need to understand what is going on. As that list shows many companies who put k8s into production learned it in a hard way.

Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by brianwawok on Saturday May 02, 2020 @08:22PM (#23055947)
Sorry I’m not following

Should I compile a list of failure stores for companies that ran Linux because Linux is complicated or has had various bugs?

How about a list of failure stories of how Ruby causes problems?

You can get errors with any system. You would need to prove to me that k8s has say more errors per day than a competitor (lambda? VMs). I just don’t understand...

Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by StreamBright on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:49AM (#23057550)
>> Hosted k8s has changed my life. Let me focus on my business and not my infra.

This is the claim that you made. I would argue that since you do not have experience with it you perceive it as you do not need to focus on your infra. Once you run into a failure with k8s and you actually need to fix it, this might change. That is all.

Re:Domesticating Kubernetes by brianwawok on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:35PM (#23060058)
Why would it

I have run into Linux failures. I still use Linux.

I have ran into bugs in Java. I still use Java when it makes sense.

So not sure what you are trying to get to. You give up on a technology the first time you have a problem?