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by solidasparagus 2204 days ago
> managed K8s (GKE or EKS) you can absolutely get a pretty well set up infra very quickly

And then tear your hair out when something doesn't work for some reason and root causing it requires learning a stupid number of layers. k8s is easy until it goes wrong.

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Isn't this the same for every software? How is debugging issues with Linux, NGINX, any complex framework any easier?
Well, for one thing, all logs are in /var/log.

If it doesn’t fail just right in kubernetes there might be no logs at all.

I’m thinking on particular about trying to mount filesystems into pods.

Debugging k8s issues is like debugging a vast distributed monolith with a vague guesses on where the problem occurred.