Re:De-cloud and de-K8s – Bringing our apps back home
by IOT_Apprentice on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:23AM
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There is the learning curve, which can be challenging for organizations that aren’t experienced or exposed to scale and performance expectations. When a company moves away from being insular & proprietary to using open source there is a period of churn that ripples through the deployment, implementation and day to day operations aspect of products that live either on customer premises or a cloud platform new to everyone.
There, what YOU know from experience and have evolved and worked through is unknown—because it is all new. And “training” (such as it is) is left as an exercise for each individual.
I’d expect that is the norm for the traditional non startup firms, globally.
The issue is not about k8s being hard. Yes, it has a steep learning curve, but many technologies do. The issue is that learning all of its intricacies, and maintaining it and the services that run on top of it, requires valuable resources many companies don't have, especially early on. And the benefits it provides are, for the most part, not needed early on in a project's lifecycle, and often never. In financial terms, it's very high risk, with low ROI.
If there's a solution that lowers the investment and maintenance costs, while being valuable in the short and long term, then that's generally a more favorable solution for most projects that don't operate at Google's scale.