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A day 0 tool for getting your app on k8s fast

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A day 0 tool for getting your app on k8s fast

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Microsoft bought one of my favorite pieces of cloud software from a few years ago Deis[1]. With that they also got Helm[2] with the purchase. They are doing GREAT with Helm and…

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2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0

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moshloop·Feb 17, 2020

Sure, https://github.com/Azure/draft doesn't require any YAML and deploys onto Kubernetes. I remember someone also doing a demo of configuring your kubernetes deployment on your Java objects directly.

In Kubernetes is NOT a container orchestrator

yebyen·Jan 14, 2020

I think this is really hard, it's a bit like how we talk about learning Rails in the Ruby community. "Don't do it" Not because it's bad or especially hard, but because there's so much to unpack, and it's so tempting to unpack it all at once, and there's so much foundational stuff (Ruby language) which you really ought to learn before you try to analyze in detail exactly how the system is built up. I learned Kubernetes around v1.5 just before RBAC was enabled by default, and I resisted upgrading past 1.6 for a good long while (until about v1.12) because it was a feature I didn't need, and all the features after it appeared to be something else which I didn't need. I used Deis Workflow as my on-ramp to Kubernetes, and now I am a maintainer of the follow-on fork, which is a platform that made great sense to me, as I was a Deis v1 PaaS user

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before it was rewritten on top of Kubernetes. Since Deis left Workflow behind after they were acquired by Microsoft, I've been on Team Hephy, which is a group of volunteers that maintains the fork of Deis Workflow. This was my on-ramp, and it looks very much like it did in 2017, but now we are adding support for Kubernetes v1.16+ which has stabilized many of the main APIs. If you have a way to start a Kubernetes 1.15 or less cluster, I can recommend this as something to try[1]. The biggest hurdle of "how do I get my app online" is basically taken care of you. Then once you have an app running in a cluster, you can start to learn about the cluster, and practice understanding the different failure modes as well as how to proceed with development in your new life as a cluster admin. If you'd rather not take on the heavyweight burden of maintaining a Workflow cluster and all of its components right out of the gate (and who could blame you) I would recommend you try Draft[2], the lightweight successor created by Deis/Azure to try to fill the void left behind. Both solutions are based on a concept of buildpacks, though Hephy uses a combination of Dockerfile or Heroku Buildpacks and by comparison, Draft has its own notion of a "Draftpack" which is basically a minimalistic Dockerfile tailored for whatever language or framework you are developing with. I'm interested to hear if there are other responses, these are not really guides so much as "on-ramps" or training wheels, but I consider myself at least marginally competent, and this is how I got started myself. [1]: https://web.teamhephy.com [2]: https://github.com/azure/draft

In Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)