Re:We don’t use Kubernetes
by Okkef on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:16AM
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Don't run your own cluster, unless you do it to learn. If you're in the cloud, just use a managed instance and focus on building software.
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How do people who do this debug issues in the k8s layer?
Or is this just the Jenga Model of Modern Software Development in action?
Re:We don’t use Kubernetes
by GauntletWizard on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:42PM
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There's definitely a lot of Jenga going on here, but on the other hand: Kubernetes, when set up, has some very simple constraints that work. You don't often need to touch things at that layer; They become invisible, and when you're dealing with a cloud provider's hosted K8s, you don't get to touch them directly anyway.
K8s was a lot more simple earlier on. It's actually dying from adoption: There's a ton of dumb ideas bolted on top, that have become "standard" and "supported" because of demands from bad customers. The core is very clean, though, and you rarely need to interact with that.
How does Ably deal with issues in the EC2 layer?
That's one of those great questions about AWS. We actually have had to contact AWS on multiple occasions about EC2 layer issues, and each time I was thankful that a VM construct is very simple, comparatively, to reason about.