On: You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting infrastructure (2019)

[throwdbaaway]

> when really it’s just an api for managing which docker processes get spun up

On GCP, the goal can be achieved without kubernetes, by deploying containers on VMs and MIGs:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/deploying-c...

Comparing that to kubernetes, the latter is indeed some kind of crazy complex system to operate.

The same can also be done either on GCP with non-COS images or on AWS, with a little bit of automation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26274033

[jameshart → throwdbaaway]

Right. I said k8s is a way. Not the way. There might be others. They might have their own trade offs.

[thisiszilff → throwdbaaway]

> Comparing that to kubernetes, the latter is indeed some kind of crazy complex system to operate.

I think the fair comparison here would be that to google's kubernetes engine. Getting a kubernetes cluster up and running in GCP is really easy.