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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by threeseed on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:51PM (#23462116)
> I don't see how k8s avoids the need to learn about cloud vendor specific tech e.g searching "aws RDS k8s"

Not sure what you mean here.

Kubernetes is designed to be cloud and vendor agnostic.

And RDS is a hosted database that you connect to from your application. Whether that applications runs standalone, in a container or VM is irrelevant.

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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by Aeolun on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:30AM (#23463664)
> Kubernetes is designed to be cloud and vendor agnostic.

But it’s not. Connecting to EKS is completely different from connecting to GCP. Setting up worker nodes is completely different too, oh and load balancers.

It’s only the last mile that’s similar.

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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by dtech on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:14AM (#23465914)
We've migrated from Heroku to EKS using Terraform to set it up. We done a small PoC for Azure, and within a day we had a small cluster and one of our apps running. The app terraform code required only 1 variable change.

Sure, it's far from drop & replace, but "completely different" is a huge misrepresentation in my experience. Running multi-cloud seemed quite doable.

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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by 15155 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:55AM (#23465201)
Provisioning a new cluster on each of these platforms is tens of lines of Terraform.
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