Yep, still doing plain old VMs.
Just like NoSQL, BigData,..., in a couple of years k8s will be slowly forgotten as everyone updates their CVs to the Next Big Thing™.
Just like NoSQL, BigData,..., in a couple of years k8s will be slowly forgotten as everyone updates their CVs to the Next Big Thing™.
Other technologies merely expand and shrink. Big Data went from being a buzzword to a simple, established fact... albeit established in places you don't work. Does Google have Big Data? Does Amazon have Big Data? Do most of us work at either of those companies?
Big Data isn't obsolete in the same way dump trucks aren't obsolete.
We have found that minimal touch is the best approach when it comes to infrastructure and tooling around it. The core of our business value is ultimately in our codebase. The infrastructure only serves to host it to our end customers, so we don't like to spend too much time on it. By keeping things very simple, we can hop between instances and even cloud vendors without much headache. We built self-contained deployments at the code level, not at the infrastructure-level (I.e. docker).
How many businesses (aside from hyperscalers) derive their principal business value from infrastructure itself? Is it worth spending all this time and frustration on various competing declarative infrastructure approaches? Surely with the amount of time it takes to get all this mess set up, someone in your organization could have purpose-built something from zero that accomplishes the same or better for your specific business concerns.
Easily handle production load on 3-5 servers / VMs while reading all about how to script quickly spinning up 1,000 VMs if they really needed to.
http://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towar...
That's not average hardware. It's a couple hundred connections max running select statements as fast as possible on the best hardware they could afford to test against.
That doesn't translate into your CRUD app handling a million requests per second.
They're all part of the same generation of tech - portable instances. This is a leap over having physical servers, but a mild improvement over each other. Think git vs mercurial - the difference isn't significant enough to move from one to the other.
Serverless, for example, would be a leap over the instance model.
Still, we have enough security issues with traditional virtualization, which only worsen every year as new side channel attacks are discovered. You'll find that container platforms like Fargate actually run everything in its own micro-VM because there's no other way for them to provide the basic isolation guarantees they peddle.
Also, what do you mean by "Docker is a crime against the computer industry"?
k8s won't go away and this comes from a dev who hates infrastructure.