Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
Main benefits of Kubernetes:<p>• Lets companies brag about having # many production services at any given time<p>• Company saves money by not having to hire Linux sysadmins<p>• Company saves money by not having to pay for managed cloud products if they don't want to<p>• Declarative, version controlled, git-blameable deployments<p>• Treating cloud providers like cattle not pets<p>It's going to eat the world (already has?).<p>I was skeptical about Kubernetes but I now understand why it's popular. The alternatives are all based on kludgy shell/Python scripts or proprietary cloud products.<p>It's easy to get frustrated with it because it's ridiculously complex and introduces a whole glossary of jargon and a whole new mental model. This isn't Linux anymore. This is, for all intents and purposes, a new operating system. But the interface to this OS is a bunch of <strike>punchcards</strike> YAML files that you send off to a black box and hope it works.<p>You're using a text editor but it's not programming. It's only YAML because it's not cool to use GUIs for system administration anymore (e.g. Windows Server, cPanel). It feels like configuring a build system or filling out taxes--absolute drudgery that hopefully gets automated one day.<p>The alternative to K8s isn't your personal collection of fragile shell scripts. The real alternative is not doing the whole microservices thing and just deploying a single statically linked, optimized C++ server that can serve 10k requests per second from a toaster--but we're not ready to have that discussion.