alt Hacker NewsYes, and Kubernetes came around as another player in that ecosystem and became popular for a reason, largely so we didn't have to manage clusters with imperative non-idempotent scripts with no runtime introspection or self-healing. I've done light devops (lab scale, not enterprise) off and on since cfengine was a thing, and while I'm no fan of the explosion of YAML (there's a special place in hell for helm in particular for using text/template to generate yaml), I'll take the controller loop design any day over most of the alternatives. Just having a sane API alone is a godsend: you ever try scripting vSphere?
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> there's a special place in hell for helm in particular for using text/template to generate yaml
Indeed. Using text templating for structured documents is already quite bad, doing it with a significant whitespace language it's absolute hell.
What sane API, for what Kubernetes runtime, in what version?
Because that is the thing, not only it is a YAML spaghetti, everything changes depending on the puzzle pieces.
I had to follow CNCF related podcasts only to be aware of what cool projects were changing Kubernetes all the time.
Thankfully nowadays I only care about managed containers, regardless how the hyperscalers do it, it is no longer my headache.
Never needed to deal with vSphere directly.