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If you follow that link on Twitter, there are a lot of reasonable answers to his (rhetorical?) question - "In a single tweet — can you name a technical benefit you and your team have gained by switching to Kubernetes?"

"Sensible configuration, fast deployments, awesome community, and flexible control plane...among others"

"single root of truth for configuration"

"predictable deploys"

"Standardized orchestration, which makes talent easier to find."

"the capability to deploy on more than one platform, more than one cloud."

"Not called in at midnight when an entire node segment went down due to hardware failure."

"The ability to deploy hundreds of services within minutes."

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I would argue that those were benefits of switching to any containerised infrastructure with an orchestrator, though. You could probably obtain most of those benefits with Nomad or Mesos.

Maybe. But the question wasn’t about the advantages of k8s over other containerization systems.

I know, you’re right of course.

It’s kinda like all those “we rewrote our Ruby app in Go and it’s 1000x faster so Go is awesome” articles. Containerisation is good for those things, but it’s still possible that Kubernetes is an excessively complex solution to the problem!

Fair enough. To your original comment, I was part of a large transition from bare metal servers and custom rolled CI, deployment, monitoring, etc over to using Mesos and the end result was infinitely more pleasurable and productive to work with as an engineer.

I like nomad but kubernetes just has a lot more tooling available for it. With nomad you’re going to have to come up with a lot of diy solutions.

The linked tweet wasn't this blog post's author, and the tweet author uses she/her pronouns.

Gentle reminder that people of all genders are present in tech, and we should be mindful of potential exclusivity when assuming everyone is a man :)

Fair enough (though i was referring to the blog author, not the tweet author, but could see how that could be confusing given the nested references)

The tweet author seemed sincere in their desire to answer that question, whereas the blog author seemed to be quoting it ironically (eg, he felt there are no ways to express k8s values in a tweet)

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