I think time will tell that ANY cluster setup is a high risk for smaller businesses. The amount of knowledge needed to run it in production is much higher than to set it up.
I have setup Kubernetes but never run it myself in production. But I work with a Hashicorp equivalent setup with Docker, Nomad and Consul. I also have several Service Fabric clusters. I think it all is just a complete waste of money. Buying services/metal in the cloud or going serverless or whatever is cheaper and with much lower risks for most minor businesses.
Ah sorry I think you may have misread the claim. K8s is my secret weapon, it’s useful for most teams when you don’t set it up (managed offering).
It really depends on what you do with that cluster, if all you do is run deployments with services and ingress (the equivalent of ECS + ELB), its easier than doing the terraform thing IMO. It’s certainly easier than cloud formation and building AMIs.
I completely agree that buying metal in the cloud is cheaper (that’s part of my secret, shhhh).
I disagree on server less because I think it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a frog boil scenario. Bit of a tin foil hat theory but I think there’s a reason companies want you to move to serverless — the complex flows you build make it sticky, the hidden costs are everywhere, they can simply raise the price at any time, and they scale cost with your business. I think we’ll see more and more of the “I got a thousand hits in a second and my bill was crazy because X” once this deluge of free credits runs out. Also definitely not sure about serverless for small business, it’s such a new paradigm, maybe if you get prebuilt flows but it’s definitely simpler to set up dokku/caprover on a droplet.
I have setup Kubernetes but never run it myself in production. But I work with a Hashicorp equivalent setup with Docker, Nomad and Consul. I also have several Service Fabric clusters. I think it all is just a complete waste of money. Buying services/metal in the cloud or going serverless or whatever is cheaper and with much lower risks for most minor businesses.