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Comment by sixhobbits | Hacker News Reader

This also needs a companion post called "common mistakes: using kubernetes".

I feel like it's a weekly occurrence now where I hear of a startup launching their mvp on kubernetes having spent 8 months too long on Dev as a result.

The other day in an interview someone bragged to me how he had convinced his team to spend 12 months moving to K8s. Upper management thought it was a waste of time but eventually agreed. I asked him if there were any measurable benefits and he said no.

I totally understands why Google needs it. Do you?

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Yes we need it.

This is absolutely becoming a tiresome trope. K8s is a huge benefit to tons of companies and none of them are Google.

Yes some people are using K8s when they don't need it. Just like many are using cloud managed services when they don't need them. Or vms. Or insert any technology here.

This article has nothing to do with whether K8s fits some particular use case but may be of help (although I disagree with the entire section on resources which reflects a lack of long term experience with K8s in production) to those who do want to use it.

You're the 10th person in this thread saying the same thing and it doesn't appear you even have that much experience with operations in general.

Sorry to go off on you but I'm really seeing these types of tropes and quick depthless one liner comments and offtopic snipes lately as the downfall of the hn comment section.

Kubernetes doesn't benefit Google? How not?

I think the intention of the post you replied to was to say that many companies other than google have a legitimate need for kubernetes.

Even Google doesn't need it that much: back when I was there, each Borg cluster had something like 10,000+ cores. Large enough to run a typical SV startup wholescale. The ratio of "cluster management work" vs. "actual work being done on it" was not that high.

These days, some people are like "Dude, if you don't have one cluster per AWS availability zone per each environment, you're doing it wrong." Why, just why.

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