Kubernetes is an almost necessary tech when you operate your own cloud and that’s where it came from: Google.
The smart people at Google knew that by quickly packaging their own internal tech and releasing it on open source they’d help people move from the incumbent AWS.
Helping customers switch IaaS hurts the both, lock in is better, but it hurts AWS way more. Proof? They made it free to run the necessary compute behind K8s control plane, until recently that was.
Are there benefits on running your biz’ web app using constructs made for a “cloud”? Sure there is, that’s why people are moving to K8s. There is real business benefits, given a certain amount of necessary moving parts. LinkedIn had such a headache with this they created Kafka.
I suspect most organisations’ Architects and IT peeps push for K8s as a moat for their skills and to beef up their resumé. They know full well that the value is not there for the biz’ but there’s something in it for them.
The smart people at Google knew that by quickly packaging their own internal tech and releasing it on open source they’d help people move from the incumbent AWS.
Helping customers switch IaaS hurts the both, lock in is better, but it hurts AWS way more. Proof? They made it free to run the necessary compute behind K8s control plane, until recently that was.
Are there benefits on running your biz’ web app using constructs made for a “cloud”? Sure there is, that’s why people are moving to K8s. There is real business benefits, given a certain amount of necessary moving parts. LinkedIn had such a headache with this they created Kafka.
I suspect most organisations’ Architects and IT peeps push for K8s as a moat for their skills and to beef up their resumé. They know full well that the value is not there for the biz’ but there’s something in it for them.