Oooold presentations (think 2016 and older) tended to talk more about basic building blocks and how they interacted, especially the design involving resources and their controllers working in a loop of "check requested state, check real state, do changes to implement requested state", and how those loops went up from single pods, through ReplicationControllers (now ReplicaSets), then Deployments, etc.
You had to become a master of figuring out the direction of where community was going and stay on bleeding edge.
Some people found this fun. I have many times enjoyed this. When I want to get a boring feature built and hand off to the jr develops so I can spend some time with my kids. It’s frustrating
The old presentations? Ones that remember K8s 1.0? There's one major change (move from Replication Controller to Deployment+ReplicaSet) that doesn't invalidate ~90% of the material, because the core stuff is about how controllers work!
Yet it seems more and more common to me that people don't learn the core mechanism of kubernetes unless per chance they got there writing CRDs :|
To me as a developer heroku is the gold standard.
Docket-compose makes sense.
Kubernes and helm is a giant soul crushing wtf On getting anything done.
Now I’ll get it figure it out. Angular + exhaust+ typescript was a similar experience after I took a break from front end for a few years. A few months of pain, then it starts clicking.
but this just seems insane for a basic web app. So many different tools needed to get it going. Tutorials all have many steps that don’t apply, or use other odd pieces swapped in.