Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon...
by adql on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:35AM
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When they say k8s is "easy" they mean "for developers", not people/automation running it.
Like, compared to implementing hitless rollback over bare metal services k8s way is "easy", just set some stuff in YAML and have proper healtchecks in your app.
I still recall the day when my local Docker builds necessitated a new router to properly manage streaming traffic at home while I downloaded a few GBs of layer images. Or the time I wanted to setup a 'simple' hosted Kubernetes cluster of my own in my lab for testing, only to discover the nightmare that is networking on it. Then there was the grim discovery that Docker containers were much more sensitive to the hosting environment than I had assumed, resulting in some fun "but it worked and tested fine" moments.
Did they all work eventually for me? Yes. Was it simple? Not by my standards.
If you find all that simple, kudos to you.