alt Hacker News"It is simple to use, easy to organize and manage, and very robust."
This is why nobody uses it. Cloud stuff has to be as baroque as possible.
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gear54rus • yesterday at 2:38 PM
It's simple to use only for toy use cases, that's why nobody uses it. The article everyone in this thread seems to like only goes as far as 'I pushed to git so it must be ok' which is laughable and I'm not even DevOps.
What happens if it errored on deployment or after that? you wanna write custom (bash? :D) hooks for that? What about upgrading your 'very vertically scalable' box? What if it doesn't come up after the upgrade? your downtime is suddenly hours, oops.
The k8s denial is strong and now rivals frontend frameworks denial. Never fails to amuse.
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To misquote Douglas Adams:
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what Kubernetes is for and how it works, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.