I’ve been building and deploying thousands of stacks on first Docker, then Mesos, then Swarm and now k8s. If I have learned one thing from it, it’s this: it’s all about the second day.
There are so many tools that make it easy to build and deploy apps to your servers (with or without containers) and all of them showcase how easy it is to go from a cloud account to a fully deploy app.
While their claims are true, what they don’t talk about is how to maintain the stack, after “reclaiming” it. Version changes, breaking changes, dependency changes and missing dependencies, disaster recovery plans, backups and restores, major shifts in requirements all add up to a large portion of your time.
If you have that kind of team, budget or problem that deserves those, then more power to you.
There are so many tools that make it easy to build and deploy apps to your servers (with or without containers) and all of them showcase how easy it is to go from a cloud account to a fully deploy app.
While their claims are true, what they don’t talk about is how to maintain the stack, after “reclaiming” it. Version changes, breaking changes, dependency changes and missing dependencies, disaster recovery plans, backups and restores, major shifts in requirements all add up to a large portion of your time.
If you have that kind of team, budget or problem that deserves those, then more power to you.