Re:Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
by p_l on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:33PM
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Well, "it depends". This is similar to my first production k8s deployment, where we used k8s to host a lot of PHP, some node.js, some other stuff, and due to legacy code it meant a lot of apache2 containers with mod_php.
The reason we went for that setup is that it helped us cut cloud/hw costs significantly (at the start we pretty much had two workers and that was because we ran everything with replicas=2) - each individual site had small requirements, and with k8s we could guarantee enough resources while binpacking as many of them per server as possible.
The actual deployment story can possibly get simpler than docker-compose, but I'd say the real question is whether you'd get a financial win out of it, as it seems you have a pretty good steady state going.
The reason we went for that setup is that it helped us cut cloud/hw costs significantly (at the start we pretty much had two workers and that was because we ran everything with replicas=2) - each individual site had small requirements, and with k8s we could guarantee enough resources while binpacking as many of them per server as possible.
The actual deployment story can possibly get simpler than docker-compose, but I'd say the real question is whether you'd get a financial win out of it, as it seems you have a pretty good steady state going.