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Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare? by tazjin on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:14AM (#31894865)
As a Xoogler I'd say that Kubernetes is harder to use than Google's internal equivalents. It may not be harder to run, but that doesn't matter inside of Google unless you're on the teams responsible for the base layers.

My point is, Kubernetes isn't really "made for Google level complexity" - Google only uses it for a handful of cloud products, internal research stuff and not much else.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare? by fn1 on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:37AM (#31895161)
Why did Google then release the complex Kubernetes to the world than their simpler internal tools?
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Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare? by amannm on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:58AM (#31896416)
To loosen up AWS-entrenched customers and their much more varied use-cases, probably.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare? by eadmund on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:58AM (#31896397)
I've long wondered if K8s is really a dastardly scheme to hold back the industry …
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Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare? by tazjin on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:26PM (#31896861)
It's basically impossible to release this kind of internal tooling due to the way Google works. You'd have to rewrite it, or open-source essentially the entire foundation, and Google probably doesn't want to do either.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare? by zikduruqe on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:56AM (#31896363)
It's a ninja smoke bomb to distract the tech world into thinking we are cool like Google.
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