[evercast]

My bet is that K8s will not only be worth learning in 2022, but also easily beyond. It is now a common infrastructure component of projects I participated in (some always used it, some are starting to). IMHO Kubernetes is quickly becoming the standard infrastructure API. Even if you don’t use all features, it’s just simpler to deploy a cluster and have everyone work on the same subset of abstractions. I am not sure if there is anything on the horizon stopping it anytime soon?

[avereveard]

Even if one is deploying lecacy application, as long as you can pack it into an image, kubernetes removes a truckload of busywork around maintaining the nodes os, managing high availability failovers, error recovery in general etc.

That's a lot of maintenance code one doesn't have to write and instances one doesn't have to manage.

The only thing I miss is a way to have a live debugging environment for developer or one that can be quickly started off local build outputs, then it'd be perfect.

[davejohnclark]

Have you tried using something like telepresence (https://www.telepresence.io/) to get a better debugging story? It's not perfect but I've used it to good effect in the past to help with some aspects of the local development story, and they've made some pretty significant improvements in telepresence 2. Not affiliated in any way, just someone who's found it a very useful tool when working with kubernetes.