I’m tired of having to learn an new infrastructure management/deployment tool every time I shift jobs. Tired of having to work with company custom platform. If you’re deployed on kubernetes it would take me a day to figure out how/where everything is deployed just by poking around with kubectl. Probably around that much time to deploy new software too.
It will take you 18 months to get kubectl access on just the staging environment though, and then another 6 to track down only 90% of the obscure people and processes that generate and mutate the manifests before deploying. Finally you'll realize that the whole time it was one guy in a corner cubicle in a remote office typing custom magic commands acting as the sole link between the engineering org and the cluster.
K8s is just another giant footgun. Good and bad orgs will still be good or bad, with or without it, but it definitely amplifies the bad.
If we’re looking at bad orgs, they’re probably gonna fuck up their custom orchestration tools to the same extent.
If we’re looking at the median, most orgs will more or less work with k8s manifests, maybe with some abstraction layer on top to make it easier for developers.
I’m tired of having to learn an new infrastructure management/deployment tool every time I shift jobs. Tired of having to work with company custom platform. If you’re deployed on kubernetes it would take me a day to figure out how/where everything is deployed just by poking around with kubectl. Probably around that much time to deploy new software too.