Ask HN: Kubernetes Worth It?

8 pointsozmaverick723y ago6 comments

To paraphrase Phil Greenspan’s famous LISP quote: “Does any sufficiently complicated micro service architecture contain an ad hoc, informally specified, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of kubernetes?” Thought that might be an interesting way of saying is it worth bitting the bullet and spending the effort to understand and use kubernetes.

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yuppie_scum3y ago

It’s wonderful software but it is expensive as hell to hire people for. You may be better off hiring junior and sending them for CKA/CKAD certifications.

cratermoon3y ago

The OP was asking if it's worth spending the time and effort to understand and use Kubernetes, nothing about hiring for it. In other words, from the programmer/sysops side, it's very much worth learning. Learn Go while you're at it, if you don't already know it. Nearly everything in the k8s ecosystem is written in Go, and there are lots of conventions in the space that make more sense if you know Go conventions.

dev_03y ago

Any benefits of learning Golang?

cratermoon3y ago

Anyone that can wrap their mind around the model of Communicating Sequential Processes[1] implemented using channels in Go will improve their programming. See also Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg

After I figured it out, I spent a good month writing personal projects to play with channels and concurrency and get the "these are cool I'm going to use them everywhere" urge out of my system.

1 http://www.usingcsp.com/

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yuppie_scum3y ago

It’s wonderful software but it is expensive as hell to hire people for. You may be better off hiring junior and sending them for CKA/CKAD certifications.

cratermoon3y ago

dev_03y ago

Any benefits of learning Golang?

cratermoon3y ago

After I figured it out, I spent a good month writing personal projects to play with channels and concurrency and get the "these are cool I'm going to use them everywhere" urge out of my system.

1 http://www.usingcsp.com/

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