Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation

Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by lebowen on Monday July 04, 2022 @05:59AM (#31975348)

I'm a developer that uses Kubernetes in production purely because I want to be able to use the same Docker images that I use in development.

I am not a Kubernetes advocate but what else is there that handles all of the issues faced when deploying containers? Such as scaling, deployment, configuration etc?

There are alternatives such as Hashicorps Nomad, but I don't see how this is any better/worse that K8s.

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Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by clubdorothe on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:40AM (#31975603)

Check into Amazon ECS or Google Cloud Run.

It's basically a higher level of managed Kubernetes ( EKS or GKE ). You give your containers, and they take care of running it.

Tim Hockin (one of kubernetes creator) support the idea to use something as much managed and automatic as possible : https://twitter.com/thockin/status/1539987108521054208

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Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by lebowen on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:50AM (#31975665)

I'm aware of these products, but do not fit my use case.

I need to run some services on premises and have set up a self hosted Kubernetes instance on a physical server in a rack.

It could be overkill and maybe I could use something like Docker Swarm. Apart from this I am unsure what I can use that isn't K8s to orchestrate my containers on site.

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Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by MaKey on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:15AM (#31976688)

Which features do you need that docker compose can't meet?

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Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by lebowen on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:47AM (#31978364)

Rolling restart for zero downtime deployments.

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Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by everfrustrated on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:30PM (#31982398)

AWS ECS can be run on-prem.

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Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation by proxysna on Monday July 04, 2022 @07:22AM (#31975847)

Nomad is a lot easier to get into, all the while it provides almost the same functionality as k8s, including a lot of the edge cases like orchestrating vm's, lxc, firecracker and ofc workloads on windows and freebsd too. Weakest point of nomad compared to k8s IMO is the size of the community.

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