Re:Zulip Cloud security vulnerability with reusable invitati...
by quadrifoliate on Sunday February 27, 2022 @12:24AM
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I see it as "this is the official way that the project uses to host, and they have been kind enough to share it with you".
I don't think Zulip themselves use Helm charts or Kubernetes Operators to host their instances. If you think hosting an instance without these is such a pain, why not just pay them to manage it for you? At least you got the option to self-host, which is not something you'll ever get with Slack.
Zulip has an officially supported, experimental docker image. Please note that Zulip’s normal installer has been extremely reliable for years, whereas the Docker image is new and has rough edges, so we recommend the normal installer unless you have a specific reason to prefer Docker. [0]
A server application without Helm charts? Stateful apps without Kubernetes Operator? For someone living with k8s all day, it feels so strange to need to make a VM, update it, then follow the installation steps and then for years coming having to keep them updated, migrate to new hosts, etc, etc.
[0] https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/deployment...