> Interestingly enough I normally recommend people avoid Kubernetes, if they don't have a real need, which most don't.
I would have agreed with this statement 2 years ago but now I think K8s has been commoditized to the point where it makes sense for many organisations. The problem I have seen in the past is that every team rolls their own orchestration using something like Ansible, at least K8s brings some consistency across teams
> K8s has been commoditized to the point where it makes sense for many organisations
Absolutely, but we still need to lose the control plane for it to make sense for small scale systems. Most of my customers run on something like two VMs, and that's only for redundancy. Asking them to pay for an additional three VMs for a control plane isn't feasible.
I think we need something like kubectl, but which works directly on a VM.
A lot of this new cloud stuff doesn't really scale down, it reminds me of Oracle, back in the day.
I had something like a desktop PC with 1GB of RAM, maybe 20 years ago, don't remember exactly how long ago. It was average, not too much but not too low either. Once I installed Oracle DB, it was idling at 512MB. Absolutely no DBs and no data set up, just the DB engine, idling at half the RAM of an average desktop PC.
Single node K8s is a thing (but slightly non-standard; you just have to untaint your “control plane” node. I’m not 100%, but I think that works with multiple control nodes too).
I would have agreed with this statement 2 years ago but now I think K8s has been commoditized to the point where it makes sense for many organisations. The problem I have seen in the past is that every team rolls their own orchestration using something like Ansible, at least K8s brings some consistency across teams