[jskaggz]

At the risk of tarnishing my reputation amongst the hacker news docker/kubernetes hypecycle elite, have an upvote. The I.T. industry in general is funny. New technologies come and go like pop stars. Docker == ke$ha, Kubernetes == ice cube, triton is fred astaire. They all have their off moments. I personally like my platform stable, performant, secure, and boring. If I spent all of my time keeping up on the latest trends on how to spin up machines, I'd have little time to work on actual product. Something good will come out of this influx of cash, marketing, and cloud sales, eventually. Fits and starts. /me goes back to coding and deploying on triton, while patiently watching the docker/kubernetes show.

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That was a big risk you took. You have guts for standing up to the hype machinery.

[jskaggz]

I'm still fighting the sneaking suspicion that putting kubernetes/etc out to the general public and having such a fast release cycle was just a genius play by the big cloud vendors to acquire customers (who will realize running this stuff on premises isn't as cheap as they thought it was after doing the math (all the math, security, training, operational expenses, personnel training/expenses, moving from docker->moby->rkt->gvisor->firecracker->now vm expenses, blah blah etc)). This current tech wave is kind of disheartening. Everybody is focused on hosting...can we not get icecube to play a show for folks that are pushing the envelope with technology as applied to the medical field, or saving the environment, yo?

Triton on-prem is a snap. Boot the headnode from usb, boot the cluster nodes from usb+pxe, and lets get to kicking ass, fighting the good fight focusing on real groundbreaking applications.

*edit: I'm still a little butt-hurt after kubernetes being rammed down my throat in a large enterprise environment. Apologies to those that are fighting the good fight with kubernetes, I know you're out there, and big high 5 :)