alt Hacker NewsKubernetes 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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randompartytime • today at 7:34 AM
>Kubernetes makes complex things (e.g blue/green deployment, auto-scaling, failover) possible
How?
Somehow we were doing that with deployment scripts and VM management tooling before Kubernetes became a thing, and without having to deal with YAML spaghetti.