alt Hacker NewsYou can use k8s on $2/mo digital ocean projects. It probably even works on the free tier of a lot of providers.
And there's zero setup. Just a deployment yaml that specifies exactly what you want deployed, which has the benefit of easy version control.
I don't get why people are so bent on hating Kubernetes. The mental cost to deploy a 6-line deployment yaml is less than futzing around with FTP and nginx.
Kube is the new LAMP stack. It's easier too. And portable.
If you're talking managed kube vs one you're taking the responsibility of self-managing, sure. But that's no different than self-managing your stack in the old world. Suddenly you have to become Sysadmin/SRE.
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> And there's zero setup. Just a deployment yaml that specifies exactly what you want deployed
Writing this yaml is hours and hours of setup if you can't ctrl+c/v from your last project
> Suddenly you have to become Sysadmin/SRE
I don't you made that argument but could a valid conclusion of your comment be that, because Kubernetes is so ubiquitous, using it frees you from being a Sysadmin/SRE?
>And portable.
This made me audibly guffaw. Kubernetes is a lot of things, but "portable" is not one of them. GKE, EKS, AKS, OCP, etc., portability between them is nowhere near guaranteed.