DEAR FRIEND, YOU HAVE BUILT A KUBERNETES

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This is a funny story of a stubborn developer who initially rejected Kubernetes as overly complex for a simple application. Their attempts to avoid Kubernetes led to a sprawling, unmaintainable system of shell scripts and Ansible. This eventually involved creating a custom solution that inadvertently replicated many core Kubernetes functionalities, which meant they just rebuilt a worse, more fragile version of Kubernetes.