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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by prakis on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:27AM (#24706558)
> Why not take the initial complexity cost and learn k8s and containerization?

Security, OS patches, maintaince and more than anything DDOS attacks. I don't want to handle all that, I just want to concentrate on development not maintaince.

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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by dividedbyzero on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:36AM (#24706591)
Managed k8s offerings usually take care of everything below the k8s API. Our GKEs auto-upgrade their control plane and the worker nodes, both OS and k8s versions. I could force my way onto the workers via SSH if I really wanted to, but by default I can't even get on those machines. All you ever do yourself is kubectl this, kubectl that. I believe DO's k8s offering is like that as well.
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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by ForHackernews on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:52AM (#24706689)
You're still self-hosting, just on top of k8s rather than on top of VMs. All the ingress is your problem, logging, monitoring...

It's only managed in the same way that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is managed.

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