Can NATS Replace Etcd? Building a Leaner K3s Stack
The Cost Trap of Multi-Node HA
I see titles on YouTube like PgBouncer in 3 Minutes – The Lightweight Hero Every Dev Needs. The objection I have to this kind of wording is the lack of words like 'ops', 'sysadmin' or 'manged service'.
Title's like this are of interest to me as they confirm a personal opinion that ops is dead. Back in 2000 something this undoubtedly would be 'every sysadmin needs'. Such job titles are often repackaged as devops or sre. They have become labels rather than descriptions.
Putting cynicism aside, I believe we need to be pragmatic when seeing the end of the road.
I built MVK initially to prove to myself and the world that K8s can run in self hosted environments cheaply and affordably, without expensive 'managed Kubernetes' services that balloon in cost over time.
I know this because I have done it, before managed...
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