Two new open source projects to make Kubernetes easier to use in production

Nice to see Heptio releasing some very accessible tooling to the community. We’ve solved the Ark use case with continuous etcd backups + EBS snapshots but this looks cleaner and more agnostic. Sonobuoy could easily replace our manual testing on brand new Kubernetes deployments (after upgrades, or when porting configuration to other platforms).

These are excellent projects that showcase how far k8s has gotten in making infrastructure programmable. Helps that the names are pretty cool too :)

Heres why i am bullish in this space.

Kube is so easy to use in prod. Literally easiest setup I have ever used. Gets better each release.

How much profit is in selling supporting tools for it? No idea but I wouldn't invest in it.