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Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)

In this post I go through the journey of overusing Kubernetes and how systemd can actually do most of what I use it for.

Back in 2018 I was hearing a lot of stuff from all angles and all sorts of friends and influences about Kubernetes, and from what I heard it seemed like a pretty promising piece of kit to use. The main lesson that I learned is that although Kubernetes is made up of all sorts of pieces and web services and sidecars and webhooks, basically acts as a giant while loop as follows: The only solutions I could find were "just recreate the whole container with all of the original command line arguments" as though I have the patience to manage that or remember each flag, or "here is some magic goop that works if you give it full control of docker.sock" which I never really liked the idea of.

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