[perrygeo]

> Ask your favorite GPT to generate manifests, ... > Before LLMs writing consistent YAMLs was PITA but today on low/development scale it's pretty much free lunch.

Writing manifests seems like a trivial thing to focus on. Who operates the k8s cluster in production? Who runs upgrades? Who's on call to monitor the system? Of course if someone else is doing all the work for you, it feels like free lunch!

[hdjrudni]

I find it much easier to upgrade k8s than a bare naked server.

With managed k8s, your host upgrades the control plane. And then you can upgrade your PHP, Python, Node, what have you, by flipping a number in your Dockerfile.

Not like other forms of sever infra don't need monitoring and upgrades anyway.

[darkwater]

The day Kubernetes will have an LTS version supported for 5 years with no API churn, and EKS and other k8s managed systems will have an LTS version based on the k8s LTS plus a bunch of LTS addons supported natively, then I will agree. Actually we will probably live in a better world overall.

Meanwhile, the update stress of core k8s - even managed - is much higher than a good managed old fashioned (immutable) infrastructure.