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- Its free

- Most code running on k8s hasn't hit full production load yet.

- Where it has worked well, its been managed by devs that know what they are doing.

- It something worth putting on a backed dev resume

- Apparent cost saving ('we just need 1 vm instead of 5', 'we can auto scale to infinity','we don't have yo pay for aws, we get it all on our own vms').

Wait a few months and we will see a slurry of posts that read 'why we moved away from kubernetes', 'top 5 reasons to not use kubernetes', 'How using kubernetes fucked us, in the ass', 'You dont need kubernetes', 'Why I will never work on a project that uses kubernetes', 'Hidden costs of kubernetes' and so on.

C'mmon, you know how this works. Just take the time and read the docs. They are well written (They just don't mention where k8s does not work well)



Exhibit 1 : Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460066




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