alt Hacker News"I keep seeing teams reach for K8s when they really just need to run a bunch of containers across a few machines"
Since k8s is very effective at running a bunch of containers across a few machines, it would appear to be exactly the correct thing to reach for. At this point, running a small k8s operation, with k3s or similar, has become so easy that I can't find a rational reason to look elsewhere for container "orchestration".
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100%. I’m really not sure why K8S has become the complexity boogeyman. I’ve seen CDK apps or docker compose files that are way more difficult to understand than the equivalent K8S manifests.
That’s awesome if k3s works for you, nothing wrong with this. You’re simply not the target user then.
If you already know k8s, this is probably true. If you don't it's hard to know what bits you need, and need to learn about, to get something simple set up.
Indeed, it seems a knee jerk response without justification. k3s is pretty damn minimal.
I can only speak for myself, but I considered a few options, including "simple k8s" like [Skate](https://skateco.github.io/), and ultimately decided to build on uncloud.
It was as much personal "taste" than anything, and I would describe the choice as similar to preferring JSON over XML.
For whatever reason, kubernetes just irritates me. I find it unpleasant to use. And I don't think I'm unique in that regard.