[yogorenapan]

Do I need it? No. Do I want to use it because of the superior tooling? Yes.

Honestly. Give yourself a month to learn it and migrate your home lab and it's actually not too difficult. Yes it takes a lot of debugging initially, but like most things, once you're familiar, it becomes easy.

[jauntywundrkind]

The fact that another engineer stands a chance of being able to see my cluster & have some basic idea how it works—that a k8s system self describes itself fairly well— is a superpower. Even if it remains yours and only yours, having a common reference frame to discuss your computing adventures in, being able to break out the great pieces others have made: it's so much more compelling to me than cobbling together your one off special pet of a system.

[sshine]

What you’re arguing is in favour of standards.

And that’s an undeniable feature of Kubernetes: people know about it, and smart people use the same (CNCF) building blocks, to keep maximising the probability that your next Kubernetes engineer has also knows about it.

But do you want to turn your software system distributed at the cost of immense complexity?

Only if you’re already cultivating something immensely complex, and you’d be better off with a common language.