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Re:Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so m... by stonemetal12 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:41AM (#31581674)
It does save work, consider what you would have to do to provide those benefits without a tool. You would have to monitor usage and spin up new instances manually for scalability. You would have to manually update instances when updates came out. You would have to manually handle failover and stand by instances for availability. Manually configure load balancers. etc.

Kubernetes is a great tool if you have scaling management problems.

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Re:Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so m... by nullspace on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:45AM (#31581731)
That's an interesting second-order effect right? Before Kubernetes et al, it was so much work or so complex that few companies implemented those things. Kubernetes saves so much work, that now everyone is doing it and it feels like more work.

"Things" here mean different things for different people. For me, it's secrets/certs, better rolling deploys and infra as code.

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Re:Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so m... by stonemetal12 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:51AM (#31582628)
Yeah, it is a premature optimization issue. Everyone is starting to implement scaling solutions before they have scaling problems.
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