[bijowo1676]

so op just recreated with sticks and tape a very basic feature what k8s does out of the box, and nobody else would be able to support his creation, because its handrolled adhoc with sparse documentation.

sounds like ghetto engineering

[alexaholic]

You'd be amazed to learn how much of the world is running just fine free of k8s and arrogance

[zzyzxd]

It's totally fine to not to use k8s. Personally, I think I have made several good decisions in my career to use/avoid k8s in different scenarios.

But if someone wrote a blog to brag about not using k8s, they can't stop people from wanting to compare their work against k8s. If there's any arrogance in the air, it feels stronger on the other side.

[bijowo1676]

I am not sure the argument "muhh k8s is too complex, I will roll docker instead" flies well in the age of cloud managed k8s offerings

EKS is literally one click of a button away and you dont need to handroll this.

even if you dont know AWS console nor terraform, claude code with aws mcp can do that for you

[robmccoll]

The problem I have with Kunernetes in general is that everything is slow and configuring everything seems needlessly complex in common use cases.

[switchbak]

I worked at a place (a big name in a given vertical!), where the SRE looked at K8S and said "hold my beer".

Out came Docker, dnsmasq, miles of duct tape and a whole lot of swearing. Just to come nowhere close to reinventing something better folks were doing years prior.

Just because you can (or think you can) doesn't mean you should. I sure do hope no one is maintaining that NIH monstrosity now!

[tbrownaw]

Are you implying that leaning on standard tooling is more arrogant than "hold my beer"?

[zzyzxd]

If this creation stays as is, then it's not very complicated and pretty easy to understand and support. But that is a big IF, and very likely won't be true. Over time people will add more useful features to it, then it becomes another Kubernetes (and if you don't have a strong engineering team, it will probably be much worse than Kubernetes).

[cyberax]

Perhaps we should look the other way: why use K8s if podman-compose can do the same? Maybe we should deprecate it and move towards simpler and more robust solutions?

[canto]

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.