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Comment by fred_is_fred

2 days ago

I've used k8s before a lot and at several companies. I am convinced that 99.9% of the people who use it should not be. But it's more fun than deploying VM images at least.

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SlavikCA  2 days ago

I'm running k3s at home on single node with local storage. Few blogs, forum, minIO.

Very easy, reliable.

Without k3s I would have use Docker, but k3s really adds important features: easier to manage network, more declarative configuration, bundled Traefik...

So, I'm convinced that quite a few people can happily and efficiently use k8s.

In the past I used other k8s distro (Harvester) which was much more complicated to use and fragile to maintain.

  • esseph  2 days ago

    Check out Talos Linux if you haven't already, it's pretty cool (if you want k8s).

    • SlavikCA  2 days ago

      I tried Talos few month ago. Found it unstable and complicated; reported few bugs.

      And because they are "immutable" - I found it's significantly more complicated to use with no tangible benefits. I do not want to learn and deal declarative machine configs, learn how to create custom images with GPU drivers...

      Quite a few things which I get done on Ubuntu / Debian under 60 seconds - takes me half an hour to figure out with Talos.

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kachapopopow  2 days ago

I use k3s for my home and for dev envs I think it's completely fine especially when it comes to deployment documentation.

I am way more comfortable managing a system that is k3s rather than something that is still using tmux that gets wiped every reboot.

Well... it's what I would have said until bitnami pulled the rug and pretty much ruined the entire ecosystem as now you don't have a way to pull something that you know is trusted with similar configuration and all from a single repository which makes deployments a pain in the ass.

However, on the plus side I've just been creating my own every time I need one with the help of claude using bitnami as reference and honestly it doesn't take that much more time and keeping them up to date is relatively easy as well with ci automations.

pjmlp  2 days ago

Same here, I went through a few projects since 2021 where doing Kubernetes setups were part of my role on the consulting project, and I would say prefer managed containers solutions, e.g. Azure Web Apps, or when running locally plain systemd or Docker Compose.

Anything else, most companies aren't Web scale enough to set their full Kubernetes clusters with failover regions from scratch.