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by gundmc 1945 days ago
They have a quote from the GKE lead directly saying "Despite 6 years of progress, Kubernetes is still incredibly complex."

But it is a surprisingly negative headline. Autopilot sounds like a cool tool to simplify container orchestration!
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Clewza313 1945 days ago
> But it is a surprisingly negative headline.

That's the Register's schtick, they're snarky about everything.

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collyw 1945 days ago
They are usually closer to the truth than evangelists telling us how this new tool is going to solve all our problems.
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konjin 1945 days ago
Reality is too negative for social media.
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dbradstock 1944 days ago
El Reg's snark is what makes it fun to speak with as they do cut to the heart of it.

GKE Autopilot is still fundamentally Kubernetes and supports the k8s APIs. GKE has simplified a lot of Kubernetes tasks that can be a pain, such as upgrades & scaling, but as many people said on other threads Kubernetes definitely is not for all workloads. For workloads that actually do need to scale then Autopilot removes a lot of the time consuming tasks required to get Kubernetes running and staying running. There are restrictions so check the docs on if it would work for how you use k8s.

Disclosure: I run product for GKE at Google so I'm definitely not a neutral voice on this...

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konjin 1944 days ago
I'm looking for a job now.

Interested in having someone who has had to set up 1000s of containers in k8s and hated all of it?

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