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Re:Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad... by mountainriver on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:19PM (#27765841)
There have been a ton of in between options, they just rarely work well for anything outside of a basic use case.

Kubernetes is complex because the reality of what you’re dealing with is complex.

Kubernetes is way better than how we used to do things, not a perfect system but there are a lot of good reasons why it’s built the way it is.

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Re:Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad... by _6pvr on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:12AM (#27768657)
> Kubernetes is complex because the reality of what you’re dealing with is complex.

Passing off complexity instead of reducing it isn't a net-positive though. The purpose of frameworks/libraries/etc is to (considerably) reduce complexity. In Kubernetes, you've replaced a group of specialist engineers with just a different group of specialist engineers.

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Re:Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad... by nkotov on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:14PM (#27767845)
Kubernetes is not the answer to every infrastructure question.
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Re:Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad... by threeseed on Thursday July 08, 2021 @02:28AM (#27768964)
Nobody ever said it was.

But if you have lots of containerised applications that needs distribution across multiple nodes then Kubernetes is definitely the answer.

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