Do you need Kubernetes (or microservices?)

No. Thanks for watching/reading.

[kcvv]

I think the point of not blindly going to Kubernetes is quite a good point. Many times a simpler solution works well enough.

[kapel]

It all depends on the use case. Setting up a VM and doing a periodic snapshot does do the work. But setting up the VM (so you don't have to worry about updates) with Packer + deploying the code to it with Ansible (or any other config management) or having the code as a docker containers gives you slightly easier maintenance. Kubernetes outside of the additional tons of complexity gives you my favourite feature - it utilizes your VM (node) in the best possible manner. Of course if your developers are proper engineers not apes and they know how to handle memory and cpu utilisation.

CI/CD can be a painful topic regardless which option you use. Updating a VM is a far easier than doing everything around kubernetes. But it depends - on the needs, scale and maturity of the organisation.

[BenjaminSweetnam]

oh agree with the bandwagon thing there is a particular set of situations where kubernetes shines but it's overkill for a lot of use cases.

[BenjaminSweetnam]

so what your saying is I'm worth more because I run kubernetes at home :)

[dyto]

Worked with k8s for like 6 or even more years, even used Docker Swarm, Rancher Cattle before.
Right now working as IC software engineer, so I don't do much ops and infra. But for personal projects still using k8s a lot. It's kinda backed into my brain already and pretty easy to manage all my side-projects in one cluster.
As for a day job I would also not use k8s for deployments when it's early stage project or small team working on it. Even if you have k8s skills it will be hard to find someone to replace you. It can easily become a nightmare when you are the only one that can make changes on infra or fix things. So the one and only k8s engineer get burnout or quits and then company has noone to replace him - project is dead. 😂

[robert-mud]

Why do I have to do a 10 min job once manually when I can spend 5 hours automating it?

[Erveon]

I understand that you want to insert yourself as a person into videos and not just have them be an information transfer but the emphasis on the coughing is very off putting

[xodzphone]

Microservices yes. All monoliths should be focusing on splitting services because different parts of the monolith may require or use more or less resources compared to each other. different message queuing needs, etc. so yes, split them out in micro services style and thence enable proper scaling and high availability with more attention to the parts that actually need is vs those that dont.. Kubernetes has always been no. I'm making 180k rn and mostly working with Consul and Nomad.