5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Diving into Kubernetes
My journey with Kubernetes has been a love-hate relationship. I remember when it all started—me, as a graduate in an organization building a new Kubernetes-based product on-premises, as the organization's first attempt. It was only five years later that I can finally understand what NOT to do when using Kubernetes.
Before I continue, I want to emphasize that I think Kubernetes is amazing when done right. I've seen it at scale, I've seen it prevent system downtime, and enable agile development and innovation. But I've also seen the bad: running the control plane, performing upgrades, losing entire master nodes, and losing all of your CI/CD scripts you loaded into the control plane to deploy your Helm charts—only to spend almost 24 hours non-stop on a call, rebuilding the cluster from scratch. I could literally see the sunrise.