Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by timr on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:09PM (#27911451)

Sure, but k8s isn't the only way to do any of those things, and it's certainly a heavyweight way of doing most of them.

It's not a question of k8s or bespoke. That's a false dichotomy.

I see way too many young/inexperienced tech teams using k8s to build things that could probably be hosted on a couple of AWS instances (if that). The parasitic costs are high.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by rhacker on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:06PM (#27912176)

I see way too many young/inexperienced tech teams STILL using an unmaintainable process of just spinning up an EC2 instance for random crap because there is no deployment strategy at the company.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by mountainriver on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:52PM (#27912670)

Yup, k8s is at least standardized in a way that’s somewhat sane.

Before k8s every org I worked for had an absolute mess of tangled infrastructure

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by breakfastduck on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:02PM (#27912768)

Not sure why this is being downvoted.

"We can do it ourselves!" attitude by people who are unskilled is the source of many legacy hell-webs sitting in companies all over the world that are desperately trying to be maintained by their inheritors.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by timr on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:36PM (#27915048)

Not responsive to the argument. k8s is maybe a "deployment strategy", but it's certainly not the only one. Or the best one for all circumstances.

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