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Re:Postgres scaling advice by barrkel on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:26PM (#25919390)
Kubernetes is for when you need to allocate CPU like you allocate RAM, and you don't want to be tied to a higher level API sold by a vendor.
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Re:Postgres scaling advice by scndalousarbite on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:55AM (#25930506)
Like sched_setaffinity didn't exist and cgroups can't be used outside some container env?
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Re:Postgres scaling advice by barrkel on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:49PM (#25951230)
Service and cluster autoscaling. Automatically allocating and provisioning new nodes on compute demand, and releasing them when done.

It can be done without k8s, but without something similar (e.g. Mesos) you're coding to cloud vendor APIs. K8s is like a cloud operating system, it gives you portable APIs for allocating compute and other cloud resources.

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Re:Postgres scaling advice by scndalousarbite on Saturday February 06, 2021 @01:19PM (#26048546)
qemu/kvm and libvirt as an example api to address your resource idiom + a load balancer/rev proxy API. You are missing my point afaict.
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