[mrweasel]

If you plan to manage on-prem Kubernetes clusters, I’d look into the certifications. If you just want to deploy to Kubernetes I wouldn’t bother.

In many field basic Kubernetes skills have become expected, but you don’t need the certications to prove it.

It may depend on where in the world you’re located.

[rainboiboi]

I have the opportunity to setup a K8s cluster (simple one) on-prem and get it to work. It was an interesting experience.

But I'm also cognizant that as more applications are built on top of cloud native services (AWS/Azure/GCP), how relevant then would K8s be?

[nocture]

On the contrary, as companies rely more and more on the cloud, they chase the mirage of avoiding lock-in even more and k8s plays a big role in this

[rainboiboi]

Yes, I suspect there would be a rise in multi-cloud setup and K8s skills might be valuable here.

[mrweasel]

Seems very much in line with the solutions we see from customers. I still think there a big savings in embracing the managed cloud service of the individual providers, but customers see it as a risk.

[withinboredom]

I don’t know if managed clusters is actually a savings unless you really need the elasticity. Usually managed solutions are 2 or 10x the cost of dedicated servers or on prem, respectively.

[mrweasel]

Sorry, I was talking about managed database, lambda, S3. I agree that managed Kubernetes is to expensive. Unless you have a very specific workload, it honestly doesn’t make sense. Depending on your usecase building on cloud service and auto-scaling VMs is going to be much cheaper.

[k8sToGo]

I mean we are using AWS, but at the end it is still Kubernetes underneath (EKS). So the concepts still apply.