Post AcLA9HCpXXDr7x0h7I by lns@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #AcL2HtU2JFykWgekcq by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2023-11-30T16:57:07Z
       
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       Before I started my last job 6 years ago, Kubernetes was still pretty immature tech. That job had no need for it, so I haven't had a good reason to use it up to now. Now it's everywhere.I've been doing a deep dive over the past month, first with the kind environment Bluefin-dx sets up, and then moving on to a bare metal test machine.That was successful so now I'm migrating certain self-hosted services from traditional on-bare-metal installs into a new local cluster.#kubernetes #k8s
       
 (DIR) Post #AcLA9HCpXXDr7x0h7I by lns@fosstodon.org
       2023-11-30T18:25:08Z
       
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       @kyle How would you say the experience has been so far in learning basically from square one? What made you choose Kubernetes over other solutions?
       
 (DIR) Post #AcLCTQzP4hHlAbTB5s by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2023-11-30T18:51:14Z
       
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       @lns Having built orchestration systems like it before it existed, the concepts are familiar, it's just learning tool syntax and how things are structured. Doing what this suite of tools does means complexity, but no more so than a homegrown solution, just standardized.I picked it because it has become the industry standard for cloud deployments--just look at any infra job listing. I like that it is in essence an open source layer on top of proprietary clouds and their APIs.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcLR04rfkmFhSxJTZw by heyoka@social.coletivos.org
       2023-11-30T21:33:56Z
       
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       @kyle why kubernetes and not docker?
       
 (DIR) Post #AcLbXpSIYAxF3wB2v2 by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2023-11-30T23:32:09Z
       
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       @heyoka Kubernetes can use docker (or containerd or other runtimes) if you want. Or did you mean Docker Swarm?K8s is for *orchestrating* all the stuff you need when deploying a container (like apps inside docker container) at scale when you have interdependent web services.I picked it because it's the main way that folks seem to be tackling the problem of orchestrating complex cloud apps today, so wherever I work next it will very likely be used and I want to ensure I'm comfortable w/ it.