[KaiserPro]

I read the article, I understand completely and I've heard that argument before. Thats why at my company we have three incompatible, half arsed K8s clusters.

At the point where you have to fix upstream bugs, its the point where one says: fuckit, its not stable enough, more trouble than its worth. Lets use gaffer tape and move on. As for maintenance, without company buyin for transplanting the _entire_ stack, its questionable. And if there are only two people, and you have to maintain an entire distributed stack, that smacks of pain.

One company, one platform.

[ownagefool]

I think you're sort of right but not really.

If the benefits of running k8s outweigh the effort of kicking a few patches upstream. Further, if nobody is kicking patches upstream, where exactly are out open source solutions coming from?

I would counter argue about the times jenkins has bit me in the ass, but actually, most solutions will when you go deep enough.

[KaiserPro]

Jenkins is an utter utter arse, don't get me wrong. I would gladly pay for circleCI for 90% of usecases. We have > 90 jenkins masters here (don't ask) all in various states of rot. all of them are unceasingly tedious.

However, for getting a script to run on a certain bunch of nodes, at a certain time for given conditions, its pretty simple. (Unless you have a fetish for the myriad of unstable jenkins plugins)

K8s however isn't simple for that usecase. If I had to read the code and then push changes _before_ it worked for my usecase I'd have dropped it like a bag of sick.

However I do take your point that if no one pushes upstream then its not very fun at all.