[adra]

Man, kubernetes is so much easier than the smattering of crap that you have to jungle together before it. Puppet and co? No thanks. Terraform? It's fine, but only a part of a CI/CD picture. If you think the alternatives are better, I really have to wonder how much of the trenches crap that people in your org deal with regularly that you're insulated from. That, or you're a release-quarterly kinda company?

[hajhatten]

We're using Nomad + Consul + a custom little cli and I would never go back to K8s from this.

Not a yaml document in sight.

[DenseComet]

Nomad is pretty great for a lot of things, especially self hosted. The only reason I prefer k8s is the ecosystem. Even though there are standardized specs like CSI, they were written with k8s in mind, so some drivers are completely broken on Nomad. Also, most cloud providers offer managed k8s, but very few offer managed Nomad.

[throw0101a]

> Puppet and co? No thanks.

Puppet? Luxury. I started my configuration management journey with cfengine. And the folks that I first heard CM about started with Makefiles:

* http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.ht...

* https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

[bob1029]

We wrote our own tools for most things. Our build is a single dotnet publish command, followed by copying the output to an S3 bucket for final consumption.

That output is 100% of what you need to run our entire product stack on a blank vm.

Monolithic pays for itself in so many ways. Sqlite and other in-process database solutions are a major factor in our strategy.