My review of Kubernetes distributions: AKS: (not tested yet) EKS: Fucking difficult. Glacial. GKE: Nice wizard. Slow. LKE: Amazingly simple, bloody fast. Microk8s: I just seem to break it a lot. Kind: Easiest, fastest, but obviously multiple nodes are all on same machine...
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Every time I use AWS I regret it. I wanted Kubernetes to be a way to abstract it all vendor neutral so I didn't have to care, but it's not that simple. Linode, especially LKE, is wonderful for production workloads. Kind is great for local testing. That's my snap judgement.
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Replying to @dotwaffle
I've only ever used kind for local stuff; and then whatever horror amazon offer for deployment (though I wasn't in charge of that, just had to debug when it went wrong) kind was pretty easy to get going. Amazon's stuff is presumably very competent, but incomprehensible.

May 15, 2022 ยท 8:10 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
It's not. Everyone just seems to use cloudformation templates and/or terraform to manage it, which is anathema to how I want to handle infrastructure like this. Try LKE sometime, it's so so nice, and the master node is free (if not HA!) so just pay for the nodes!
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If I ever need a cloud k8s again I'll bear that in mind - I don't get to write software any more :D
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