Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
Main benefits of Kubernetes:• Lets companies brag about having # many production services at any given time• Company saves money by not having to hire Linux sysadmins• Company saves money by not having to pay for managed cloud products if they don't want to• Declarative, version controlled, git-blameable deployments• Treating cloud providers like cattle not petsIt's going to eat the world (already has?).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.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 punchcards YAML files that you send off to a black box and hope it works.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.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.