alt Hacker NewsI'm trying to understand why people are spinning up so many k8s clusters that they need a tool to do it for them?
I have one. And it's managed. I don't think there's significant cost savings to going unmanaged, but maybe. Even so, why would I need a ton of them?
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threecheese • today at 11:31 AM
Because they are selling a “pro” version as part of their commercial product SlicerVM. It has more features for operating a k3s cluster.
krisknez • today at 8:20 AM
You're cool if you manage your own K8S cluster.
vasco • today at 8:40 AM
It's applied big brain memetics. k8s turned pet servers into cattle. People then do the next step and want to treat their clusters as cattle as well. Also it has a bit of the "can it run DOOM" vibe to treat whole k8s clusters like this.
> And it's managed.
Can’t use cloud stuff on-prem and also if your clients have a server room of their own. Same for homelab.
Also it’s nice not to shift the pets attitude from servers to clusters and instead treat everything as cattle - provided you have backups of persistent data and the config versioned in a Git repo and there’s maybe some Ansible in the mix, being able to recreate an environment in the case of a fuckup is nice and also helps against bit rot.
Disclaimer: I actually prefer Docker Swarm/Compose over K8s due to simplicity (which matches my deployments and scale), but in the cases where I had to use a variety of K8s, going for K3s was pretty okay.