alt Hacker NewsI still don't know really what Kubernetes is for or why so many people outside specific environments are using it, but it's cool that you're using Ruby.
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LaurensBER • today at 6:02 AM
Kubernetes makes complex things (e.g blue/green deployment, auto-scaling, failover) possible irrespective of the underlying cloud/hardware with a good and standardized API.
It's absolutely overkill for small teams and homelabs (I run a cluster myself) but an absolute godsend if you do need the advanced functionality.
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Kubernetes is good for two things. Zero downtime deployments and self-healing (where the looping state mechanism comes in). There are people who want k8s to handle every single operation that can run on a server, do not listen to those kinds of people they will lead you astray.