On Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a beast.

Gabriel

It’s easy enough to get a basic cluster stood up these days thanks to myriad of cloud offerings - not to mention the gluttony of tools to create and manage a cluster.

Then I started looking at services meshes and ingress options and monitoring…next thing I knew the ‘simple’ single node cluster with 16GB of ram and 8 CPUs was not quite enough.

I’m evaluating options for standing up a platform for microservices. At this point I’d kind of prefer to use a serverless platform. However, in a heavily regulated industry with regulators that are little resistant to change, Cloud is still a bit of a dream.

So I think I need to get a lot more acquainted with Kubernetes and istio and maybe ambassador and prometheus and kiali and when does the list finish?!