Re:The Hater's Guide to Kubernetes
by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday March 04, 2024 @02:23AM
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I dunno, if you have to use GCP to have a good time, then that's a pretty great argument against k8s for a lot of people.
I think "bare" Kubernetes is still a quite nice tool that allows for learning transferable skills across clouds (similar to Terraform). E.g. even if I have to spin up my own nginx-ingress to be able to handle ingress resources, after having learned that initially, I can basically do the same thing across clouds.
It's just that GKE (Autopilot) does a lot of those out of the box for you that, so you get a much easier end-to-end experience for non-admins (= "request resources -> have them instantiated").
That's just because AWS's Kubernetes offering is laughably bad.
There is huge difference in your experience whether you use Kubernetes via GKE (Autopilot) or any other solution (at least as long you don't have a dedicated infrastructure team).