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Kubernetes is a symptom, not a solution
Today I decided to run a little experiment. I asked an AI to write a brutally honest, no-holds-barred critique of Kubernetes, something really spicy that would make the container orchestration crowd squirm in their ergonomic office chairs.
A Docker component is literally “a disk image with whatever random stuff you decided to put inside it!” The only reason this approach gained traction is because it saves upload space compared to creating full virtual machines. From this fundamentally broken concept of componentization, we’ve constructed the entire Kubernetes ecosystem, which exists primarily to solve the problem of managing these semantically meaningless horrors by aggregating all possible kinds of digital garbage into something that resembles a functioning system. Until we’re ready to have that conversation honestly, Kubernetes will continue to be the colossal innovation bottleneck that it is today, dressed up in the clothes of progress and sold as the solution to problems it largely created in the first place.
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