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I've learned it enough to know how to use it and what I can do with it

… I've learned it enough to know how to use it and what I can do with it. I still prefer to use literally anything else apart from k8s when building, and the only time I've ever felt k8s has been really needed to solve a problem is when the business has said "we're using k8s, deal with it". It's like the Javascript or WordPress of the infrastructure engineering world - it became the lazy answer, IMO. Or the me problem angle: I'm just an aged engineer moaning at having to learn new solutions to old problems.

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JA

I can only speak for myself, but I considered a few options, including "simple k8s" like [Skate]( https://skateco.github.io/ ), and ultimately decided to build on uncloud. It was as much personal "taste" than anything, and I would describe the choice as similar to preferring JSON over XML. For whatever reason, kubernetes just irritates me. I find it unpleasant to use. And I don't think I'm unique in that regard.

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HH

It’s a nice portable target, with very well defined interfaces. It’s easy to start with and pretty easy to manage if you don’t try to abuse it.

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TI

I mean the real answer it is got easily to deploy k8s so the justification for not using it kinda vanished.

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