[auslander]

Kubernetes is an overkill for 90% of systems. The hype will die off eventually, but not before ruining fair number of projects. Death by overengineering. I wonder how things even worked before containers :)

[a_imho]

What are some example where you think Kubernetes is the right choice?

[auslander]

When you have to run many different apps from 3rd party devs, having standard deployment format helps. Or on-demand apps, like ETL jobs.

Containers offer not much benefit if you're cloud native - you already have VMs and heaps of automation APIs.

[geggam]

Google, Facebook, AOL , Oath/Y!

When you have a large scale platform with millions of users and you need to add / remove / change services at some marketing teams whim

[a_imho]

Do they run on kubernetes though?

[majewsky]

Google runs on its own container system, Borg. Kubernetes is a free reimplementation of Borg sponsored by Google.

[a_imho]

So one of them rounded up?

I don't have hands on experience with kubernetes and a quite a bit skeptical because of its supposed complexity. Would be interested in success stories though where kubernetes magic was the much needed secret sauce.

[auslander]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953647