Kubernetes is very complex and took a long time to learn properly. And there have been fires among the way. I plan to write extensively on my blog about it.
But at the end of the day: having my entire application stack as YAML files, fully reproducible [1] is invaluable. Even cron jobs.
Note: I don't use micro services, service meshes, or any fancy stuff. Just a plain ol' Django monolith.
Maybe there's room for a simpler IAC solution out there. Swarm looked promising then fizzled. But right now the leader is k8s[2] and for that alone it's worth it.
[1] Combined with Terraform
[2] There are other proprietary solutions. But k8s is vendor agnostic. I can and have repointed my entire infrastructure with minimal fuss.
Kubernetes is very complex and took a long time to learn properly. And there have been fires among the way. I plan to write extensively on my blog about it.
But at the end of the day: having my entire application stack as YAML files, fully reproducible [1] is invaluable. Even cron jobs.
Note: I don't use micro services, service meshes, or any fancy stuff. Just a plain ol' Django monolith.
Maybe there's room for a simpler IAC solution out there. Swarm looked promising then fizzled. But right now the leader is k8s[2] and for that alone it's worth it.
[1] Combined with Terraform
[2] There are other proprietary solutions. But k8s is vendor agnostic. I can and have repointed my entire infrastructure with minimal fuss.