Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin

Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, and What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin, Google

The Kubernetes Service API is terrible! It’s one of the oldest APIs in Kubernetes, and it’s really showing its age. The concept is good, but the API has many problems which can’t be solved without breaking compatibility. The Service API is a great example of how NOT to design an API. This lighting talk will give a whirlwind tour of the ways this over-burdened API falls short, the real problems it is now struggling to solve, and how we are planning / hoping to address them with new, better APIs like Gateway.

[Jarek.]

Quick and compressed, thanks for this. And now I'm going back to defining k8s services in my app 🤣