Show HN: Making managing kubernetes cluster easier

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7 points·ahmadassaf··2 comments

Congratulations on making a successful release. Kudos to you!

I am going to post a concern regarding the increasing layers of abstraction which is not at all directed at your project but at this domain of managing containers, in general, and the never-ending increase in complexity.

So first we find it difficult to manage so many virtual machines, we got Docker which was a good concept.

Then we found it difficult to manage so many Docker-based services so we got Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.

Now it is difficult to manage Kubernetes, so we have got a new project to manage Kubernetes.

Is there any way to break out of this cycle?

There are many tools (paid and free) that assist with managing multiple kubernetes clusters but we still need to make it easy for human intervention. When an issue is happening with your kubernetes cluster and you need address it immediately, having the information that you need already at your finger tips is insanely useful. (3am me is going to appreciate it)

However, the problem of managing multiple kubernetes clusters isn't an easy problem to solve but a good problem to have. It creates a space open for new ideas on how best we make this part of the industry better and kubernetes itself has looked at this problem and suggested a solution with federated cluster. I don't have a straight forward answer, but I am excited to be part of the solution.

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