Realistically, how many people / companies, in reality, need k8s? It’s a very complex solution geared at managing huge clusters. Sure, if you are Google or Netflix it makes sense. But for smaller deployments, I can’t see why less complex solutions cannot work.
K8s is a great tool, but it’s very complex and has reinvented a lot of things, which traditional tools can do just as well.
DevOps people with K8s knowledge are much easier to find, and many companies don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Honestly, K8s is as complex as you need it to be. For smaller deployments it's working just fine too.
Re:From macOS to FreeBSD
by freedomben on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:47PM
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I used to say the same thing, but now that there is so much K8s knowledge out there, I think it's the wrong question to ask.
You probably don't need kubernetes, but if you already have a k8s cluster and someone who has done it,, with 10 to 20 minutes of work you can deploy your app/service in a highly available. Even if you don't have a k8s cluster yet, these days you can provision one easily without advanced levels of knowledge. Even just zero-down time deploys make k8s a good choice for a small shop. You basically get it for free with K8s.
Nomad is very cool, as are most hashicorp creations, but it’s not in the same class. It’s a single vendor solution, has a lot less mileage on it, doesn’t have the same flexibility. It may very well solve your problem but I don’t know that it will work for as many as k8s does.
Really, someone should start to enable k8s with BSD technologies