Kubernetes: Getting Started

I think the answer is (a) because there are actually a lot of people out there who need a gentle introduction (at least a lot of my co-workers do, whether or not they will read it) and this article is most simply a good pointer on where to start...

and (b) because Phippy. The Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes was very highly rated when it came out, I passed around my hard copy to senior management and they all said "thank you, because this is exactly what we need."

I'm pretty sure there's not a single piece of bad advice in this post, and it has the appropriate level of detail for someone who is in need of a "getting started" guide.

(Yes, but why right now? Well it's a brand new article, EKS was just announced yesterday, so it's great timing. I know there are a bunch of people at re:invent this week who will probably be getting this link from me when they get back.)

It's just full of all the same advice I've been giving, and Phippy is also a nod to Deis, which sadly can't be recommended anymore without a disclaimer (because, at least from my recent experience, people will be feeling betrayed when they find out there's currently nobody "at the helm" so to speak that they can buy commercial support from, even though it's an open source product and they weren't going to buy support anyway...)

But Phippy is a great representative of how most people are feeling when they first start to get acquainted with K8S.