VAvasu1124·May 18, 2018
That's all nice. The issue though is that BOSH has been completely leapfrogged by Kubernetes with its extensible API. Nowhere will BOSH ever get to the community reach and acceptance of the level of Kubernetes. That Boat has sailed. And with implementations of the machine specs [0,1,2,3] you get rid of the "media break" that you deem BOSH is filling (it is not). Maybe you could implement BOSH as implementation of the machine spec and integrate into K8s, the other way round than KuBo?
As for the bunch of data services, I guess it's only a matter of time until you see a cambrian explosion of productive operators. I mean this non-comprehensive list [4] is already impressive.
SAP works in many projects where obligations with long term commitments have to be kept. And that is ok. BOSH CPI is one experiment to get CF on K8s. Have a look at the
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one which seems more attainable [6]. But these activities are an indicator of the elephant in the room, namely CF & K8s: Will it blend? [5]
I work for SAP in the inter-junction of SaaS, PaaS & IaaS and K8s.
[0] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
[1] https://github.com/kube-node/nodeset
[2] https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager
[3] https://github.com/kubeup/archon
[4] https://github.com/operator-framework/awesome-operators
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ow7IumxkOM
[6] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qs6UQQDWMkfOpY19XqS3CfvI...