Comment by pxc

This is the problem for me with the cloud:

> Finally, clouds have painful APIs. This is where projects like K8S come in, papering over the pain so engineers suffer a bit less from using the cloud. But VMs are hard with Kubernetes because the cloud makes you do it all yourself with lumpy nested virtualization. Disk is hard because back when they were designing K8S Google didn’t really even do usable remote block devices, and even if you can find a common pattern among clouds today to paper over, it will be slow. Networking is hard because if it were easy you would private link in a few systems from a neighboring open DC and drop a zero from your cloud spend. It is tempting to dismiss Kubernetes as a scam, artificial make work designed to avoid doing real product work, but the truth is worse: it is a product attempting to solve an impossible problem: make clouds portable and usable. It cannot be done.

Please learn from Unix's mistakes. Learn from Nix. Support create-before-destroy patterns everywhere. Forego all global namespaces you can. Support rollbacks everywhere.

If any cloud provider can do that, cloud IaC will finally stop feeling so fake/empty compared to a sane system like NixOS.