> The question is, if you have any of these problems, why is it better to get your head into how Kubernetes deals with those operations & tools rather than dealing with well-defined unix tools that specialise in doing these jobs. syslog instead of however Kubernetes gathers the logs, reading FreeIPA docs instead of Kubernetes auth system logs?
The author answers this--learning how to stitch together a bunch of disparate unix tools into a smoothly-operating system requires a whole bunch of professional experience. The author claims that k8s requires the same amount of experience but scales; personally, I think he's being too charitable (or to take a different perspective, he undervalues the difficulty of being a traditional sysadmin). Perhaps he meant "for a single machine". In my opinion, once you extend beyond one machine, k8s is quite a lot simpler.
The author answers this--learning how to stitch together a bunch of disparate unix tools into a smoothly-operating system requires a whole bunch of professional experience. The author claims that k8s requires the same amount of experience but scales; personally, I think he's being too charitable (or to take a different perspective, he undervalues the difficulty of being a traditional sysadmin). Perhaps he meant "for a single machine". In my opinion, once you extend beyond one machine, k8s is quite a lot simpler.