Took a while to find this. K8s is great, IMO most of the people with alternative setups are just rebuilding (usually worse) or compressing (specific to their use case) k8s features that have been GA for a long time.

Spend some time learning it, using it to deploy simple apps, and you won't go back to deploying in a VM again imo.

This only gets better with ai-assisted development, any model is going to produce much better results for k8s given the huge training set vs someone's bespoke build rube-goldberg machine.

I think it's just that k8s allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, thus it gets all the blame.

when in reality, you can go very bare-bones with k8s, but people pretend like only the most extreme complexity is what's possible because it's not easy to admit that k8s is actually quite practical in a lot of ways, especially for avoiding drift and automation

that's my take on it

Can you expand how it redefined computing for you personally?

it's always a skill issue when it comes to people complaining with k8s

knowing when and when not to use k8s, is also a skill

Missing some hn snobbery

I noticed in his article he said something like 'and then devops team puts a ton of complexity...' which doesnt seem like a k8s problem.

You're not missing anything. There's legions of amateurs that dislike k8s because they don't understand the value.

> the best software written since win95

This feels like what us Brits would call "damning with faint praise".

Windows 95 was terrible. Really bad. If you really mean to say that Kubernetes is revolutionary and well-engineered, Windows 2000 would be a much better example.