>Is it, though? There's more complexity due to more moving parts, sure. But being able to solve issues by just issuing a "scale" kubernetes command in the CLI is priceless. As is killing pods with no drama.
On the contrary, getting to the place where you can issue commands over k8s on a project not specifically designed for it has a very real and very significant cost. Companies are killing themselves trying to do this for no good reason.
Need a new node? Fire up whatever it is that you fire up: Ansible, Chef, AMI, bundle of custom bash scripts, whatever. No need for the massive complexity of k8s.
Specifically, what benefits are you seeing from k8s (i.e., what unique utility does the "scale" or "delete pod" command bring that is not reasonably resolved by less complex solutions)? It's just causing me a lot of frustration right now. I can see Google's need for it. Not having much luck seeing its use in non-Google-scale businesses.
If you're doing a from-scratch thing that you can architect around k8s and think that's more convenient than more traditional approaches and can accept its currently-quite-serious limitations, that's whatever. If you're talking about some tangible objective benefit that most companies need to be able to enjoy here, please do elaborate.
On the contrary, getting to the place where you can issue commands over k8s on a project not specifically designed for it has a very real and very significant cost. Companies are killing themselves trying to do this for no good reason.
Need a new node? Fire up whatever it is that you fire up: Ansible, Chef, AMI, bundle of custom bash scripts, whatever. No need for the massive complexity of k8s.
Specifically, what benefits are you seeing from k8s (i.e., what unique utility does the "scale" or "delete pod" command bring that is not reasonably resolved by less complex solutions)? It's just causing me a lot of frustration right now. I can see Google's need for it. Not having much luck seeing its use in non-Google-scale businesses.
If you're doing a from-scratch thing that you can architect around k8s and think that's more convenient than more traditional approaches and can accept its currently-quite-serious limitations, that's whatever. If you're talking about some tangible objective benefit that most companies need to be able to enjoy here, please do elaborate.