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by mirceal 1446 days ago
> Stop pretending Kubernetes is this humongous infrastructure investment that mandates a full time job to keep up at low scale.

It is a full time job. The cost of using something is not just the setup cost. The same way that software development is not just the cost of writing the software.
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mixedCase 1446 days ago
How? What is keeling over so often on that is not on a simpler setup?

I've set up EKS multiple times across different companies with few nodes and everything runs smoothly all of the time.

Can you go into detail?

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thaneross 1446 days ago
Indeed. Hosted k8s has been low maintenance in my experience, much lower than managing a bunch of VMs. I think the common thread between people who have horror stories using k8s is either pains from self-hosting or teams who adopted it without experience and used the ample rope it gives to hang themselves.
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steveBK123 1446 days ago
YES!

"It's easy to setup" speaks nothing to how much effort it takes to maintain.

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