What I really miss in articles like this - and I understand why to some degree - what the actual numbers would be.
Admitting that you need at least two full-time engineers working on Kubernetes I wonder how that kind of investment pay’s itself back, especially because of all the added complexity.
I desperately would like to rebuild their environment on regular VMs, maybe not even containerized and understand what the infrastructure cost would have been. And what the maintenance burden would have been as compared to kubernetes.
Maybe it’s not about pure infrastructure cost but about the development-to-production pipeline. But still.
These is just so much context that seems relevant to understand if an investment in kubernetes is warranted or not.
Admitting that you need at least two full-time engineers working on Kubernetes I wonder how that kind of investment pay’s itself back, especially because of all the added complexity.
I desperately would like to rebuild their environment on regular VMs, maybe not even containerized and understand what the infrastructure cost would have been. And what the maintenance burden would have been as compared to kubernetes.
Maybe it’s not about pure infrastructure cost but about the development-to-production pipeline. But still.
These is just so much context that seems relevant to understand if an investment in kubernetes is warranted or not.