Re:Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
by zozbot234 on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:15AM
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K8s is trying to do distributed computing on a low-level OS platform that was never developed or designed for this purpose. Look at things like plan9 to see how much easier and more elegant it could be. Sure, plan9 doesn't provide k8s' autoscaling and provisioning features out of the box but the basic building blocks are all there. (And no, Linux is nowhere close to providing these patterns because custom user-space implementations of kernel-side features are only made possible on a totally ad-hoc basis.)
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Re:Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
by wwosik on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:59AM
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You have to keep wondering if plan9 is so great, why nobody uses it really. Is it a conspiracy, or is it that plan9 is not that great after all?
Re:Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
by drybjed on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:20AM
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Everybody uses Plan9, it's called "The Web" now.
Re:Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
by nix23 on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:17AM
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>why nobody uses it really
If i where you i would stop use argumentation's like that.
OpenVMS has still the best Clustering tech...why is "nobody" using it? And btw p9 is very much used (WSL for example).
Linux is for sure not the best kernel, not for server not for desktop and not for mobile...it's good enough and everyone circles around it, it has some bacon for everyone (even if the bacon is sometimes disgusting).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)
Same with unix in itself...it's good enough.
Some years ago you could argue that everyone uses mysql...why even bother with that postgresql-thing.