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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by hot_gril on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:30PM (#38524736)
Even if you could get everyone to tend the garden, it encourages unnecessary breaking changes or fragile design. LTS provides some much-needed backpressure. If a new feature truly requires breaking things, people who really want it will put in the effort.
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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by p_l on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:56AM (#38527857)
That's why Kubernetes provides versioned APIs with proper lifecycles and levels of stability.

A stable API is not going to change randomly on you, and of it does, it's going to come with deprecation policy so you have time to do it.

Personally I did have few "painful" k8s upgrades, but every time it happened it was due to long-announced large scale change... That another team didn't want to upgrade over despite delaying so long the last version compatible became EOL

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by hot_gril on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:26PM (#38539826)
Right, but the support is not very long. You still get basically forced to update at least every 14 months according to the article.
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