Re:Red Hat releases new OpenShift CLI developer tool
by freedomben on Friday May 01, 2020 @06:34PM
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I have had a similar experience. It's certainly easily to grok the architecture when it's traditional and simple, but it's significantly more work when every app follows a different pattern (which tends to happen in bespoke infrastructure). I've done both and while I agree with the gp that k8s is overkill for a lot of apps, there's still a lot of value in having patterns and consistency. When you can go from Service A to Service B and know that it's laid out similar, the cognitive overhead of managing several or dozens of services goes way down.
Re:Red Hat releases new OpenShift CLI developer tool
by blinkingled on Friday May 01, 2020 @05:08PM
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Compared to maintaining a OCP cluster? Sure it is easy peasy - I can vouch for that having done both.
Similarly, you're talking about a significant amount of work maintaining bespoke infrastructure duplicating what systems like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Nomad, etc. do but taking on the responsibility for integrating and supporting all of those disparate parts yourself, not to mention getting the policy, security, and operational go-ahead to do so.
“Easy peasy” does not match my experience with that approach but I'm glad it's working well for you.