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Re:It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really? by kitotik on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:46PM (#25377682)
Is “1 computer livestock” even possible?

After your single cattle is murdered, the next one has to be raised right?

State has to come from somewhere. Downtime has a cost for most businesses.

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Re:It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really? by aaomidi on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:06PM (#25378669)
In this case the state can come from a centrally managed k8s controller. Something that most cloud providers provide and have good SLAs on.

Kubernetes just makes that story so much simpler. Heck a good cloud provider can just handle any machines fucking up automatically without any human intervention on your side.

The same can't be said for a single machine.

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Re:It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really? by bpodgursky on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:18PM (#25378023)
Downtime has cost.

But being able to blow away a k8s node and bring it back up in 2 minutes (or have k8s auto-spawn a replacement node) is WAY faster than having to reinstall wordpress, reinstall nginx, set IP addresses, fiddle with your DNS, restore a database from a backup, etc, etc, etc.

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