Why I'm Betting on Kubernetes

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12 pointsjondubois4 comments

> [The author] like[s] to describe Kubernetes as "A special kind of operating system for the cloud — One which allows developers to treat an arbitrary number of machines/hosts as if they were a single, very powerful machine."

I don't agree with this comparison. Apps still have to be designed to run in a distributed environment.

I'd describe it more like a flexible, self-contained PaaS.

> > [The author] like[s] to describe Kubernetes as "A special kind of operating system for the cloud — One which allows developers to treat an arbitrary number of machines/hosts as if they were a single, very powerful machine."

> I don't agree with this comparison. Apps still have to be designed to run in a distributed environment.

To be fair, in the author's analogy you also have to design applications to run in a multi-threaded environment (since they talk about scheduling and how an OS's main job is scheduling tasks so they can utilise resources). So the analogy holds there too.

I don't see why I can't replace "K8" with "Mesos" everywhere in this article.

Yes you can.

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