> “The biggest mistake was to miss Kubernetes. We were in that collective thought bubble where internally we thought Kubernetes was way too complicated and Swarm would be much more successful,” Jérôme Petazzoni, one of Docker’s first and longest serving employees, said. “It was our collective failure to not realize that.”
They were not wrong on saying that Kubernetes was very complicated, at least in some sense. In the beginning no one wanted to use it because they could easily setup Docker Swarm with minimal effort. This argument still pops up frequently on HN when there's a new post about Kubernetes.
I guess the problem was they didn't realize why Kubernetes needs to be that complicated. And if a system is complicated for good reasons, that's actually good business opportunity and tons of people and companies will be willing to make the effort to fill that gap.
They were not wrong on saying that Kubernetes was very complicated, at least in some sense. In the beginning no one wanted to use it because they could easily setup Docker Swarm with minimal effort. This argument still pops up frequently on HN when there's a new post about Kubernetes.
I guess the problem was they didn't realize why Kubernetes needs to be that complicated. And if a system is complicated for good reasons, that's actually good business opportunity and tons of people and companies will be willing to make the effort to fill that gap.