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by paxys 916 days ago
Maybe a got fit for someone who is reluctant to use Kubernetes but has to for whatever reason.
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If someone isn't a cloud provider they should be reluctant to use Kubernetes.
Aren't most k8s users not cloud providers?

It's more about good abstractions and APIs for running applications in the cloud. Cloud providers are the one's offering the APIs and abstractions we use, and increasingly putting k8s abst/apis at the forefront, because that is where industry has moved to

> Aren't most k8s users not cloud providers?

Yes. The point still stands.

People and companies use it because it makes this easier in several areas, it's industry standard at this point.

Can you explain why we should be reluctant to use k8s?

> People and companies use it because it makes this easier in several areas

Compute on demand is significantly more complex using k8s than what most companies already pay for from their own cloud provider, AWS is the industry standard for this purpose, followed by Azure, then TF, then Pulumi maybe.

k8s is a meme for resume-driven development.

Ok, you're obviously just a hater and aren't worth taking seriously
Plenty of companies/teams qualify as "cloud providers" even though all the usage is internal.