Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
by raffraffraff on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:02PM
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Taking the complexity of k8s away was just gonna happen. As someone who built everything from scratch at a previous company, I chose eks at a start-up because it meant that the one-man-systemsguy didn't have to worry about building and hosting every single cog wheel that is required for package repos, OS deployment, configuration management, consul+vault (minimum), and too many other things that k8s does for you. Also, you can send someone on a CKA course and they know how your shit works. Try doing that with the hodge-podge system you built.
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Training is a great point, and I think that's why major clouds are going to be stickiest (in terms of using them vs migrating to new things).
The central problem of most companies has been finding / affording people who can maintain their stuff.
If Amazon / MS / Google can make it simple enough that skilled people can be quickly cross trained, and then have enough architecture knowledge to be productive, that's a huge win over "require everyone to spend 6 months muddling through and learning our stack we built ourselves and partially documented."