Re:Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
by nprateem on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:36AM
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The problem is never spinning things up, it's in maintenance and ops. K8s brings tons of complexity. I wouldn't use it without thinking very carefully for anything other than a very complex startup while you're finding product-market fit.
Not because I'm amazing, but there's a frankly ridiculous amount of information out there, and good chunks of it are high quality too. I think I started the job early January, and by April I had CI/CD, K8s for backend/frontend/DBs, Nginx (server and k8s cluster), auto-renewing certs, Sentry monitoring, Slack alerts for ops issues, K8s node rollback on failures, etc.
The best way to learn, is to do. Cliche, but that's what it really comes down to. There's a fair few new concepts to grasp, and you probably have picked some of these up almost by osmosis. It sounds more overwhelming than it is, truly.