It’s to be expected. Criticism of Kubernetes is taken personally by people who have dedicated themselves to it since it’s in vogue. It is very much showing the cracks in its perceived perfection and this company is far from the only one bucking the trend. We are seeing the long tail of people who don’t realize (or acknowledge) that Kubernetes is already on the other side of the hype cycle. That long tail is currently driving this conversation because commenting on a 500 is the lowest effort imaginable, but they do not speak for the industry. (Source: 24 years in FAANG-scale ops. I remember this cycle for many, many other fetish tools.)
Seriously, a Wordpress blog goes down (like that’s never happened under HN load) and all of HN is saying “lol what dogshit if only they used k8s for basically static content, the morons” which tells you a lot about the psychology going on here. A LOT. Otherwise smart engineers just can’t help themselves and redefine “irony” even though it contributes absolutely nothing to the discussion and doesn’t even address the fundamental criticism.
We are in a thread that essentially started with “the blog is down, how can I trust the product?” If you can figure out that logic please let me know. That’s basically saying “I don’t understand operations at all,” but here we are, listening to it and its Strong Opinions on a resource allocator and orchestrator.
This thread basically confirmed for me that Kubernetes is losing air. I already knew that, but the signal is getting a little bit stronger every month.