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These posts about kubernetes are so ridiculous. Installing kubernetes on multiple servers is not difficult, and understanding the components is pretty straightforward if you've ever worked on a distributed system.

If you don't want to be in the "cult", dont use it. Meanwhile i'll be writing service and deployment yamls and avoiding all the proprietary expensive aws bs.

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It's not difficult if it's your full time job. The learning curve is punishing though if you're trying to learn it from 9-12 AM on Saturday.

The fundamental flaw with Kubernetes is that the UI is so bad. The abstraction is leaky and the naming is confusing. It certainly didn't stop git adoption.

kubectl has the ideal UI for managing a k8s cluster.

I wouldn't go so far as to call it "ideal", but it certainly beats the web UI.

So what? It wasn't designed to make it easier for hobbyists to deploy their weekend projects, it's meant to provide ops-engineers with an infrastructure-as-code abstraction for distributed applications.

Exactly. The point of the first meme in the blog post isn't "kubernetes is so overcomplicated why would anyone deploy their blog on it", it's "your blog is nowhere near complex enough to merit running on kubernetes".

Everyone here is blaming the truck company instead of the person that bought a flatbed to transport a 2-lb box

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