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Paul Butler – The hater’s guide to Kubernetes

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Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering. I’m guilty of taking pithy jabs myself. Despite my snark, “great piece of technology” truly is sincere; at the time of that post I had recently written about how much of Kubernetes’ complexity is necessary for what it does. We’ve been running Kubernetes in production for a few years now at Jamsocket, and I’ve found a good flow with it. Kubernetes serenity has been achieved internally. A big key to this has been carving out a small chunk of Kubernetes’ features and pretending the rest don’t exist. This post started as an internal guide to the way we use Kubernetes, so it’s not meant to apply prescriptively to every startup; nonetheless I think it’s a good starting place for avoiding many of the sandbars in the vast seas of Kubernetes. As I see it, Kubernetes is the best-travelled path

Paul Butler – The hater’s guide to Kubernetes Paul Butler Posts The hater’s guide to Kubernetes The hater’s guide to Kubernetes Paul Butler - March 3, 2024 Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering. I’m guilty of taking pithy jabs myself. I might gripe about Kubernetes sometimes, but it really is a great piece of technology. I highly recommend it to all my competitors. - Paul Butler (@paulgb) September 9, 2022 Despite my snark, “great

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