


> Kubernetes on the other hand is trivial with GKE

Swam doesn’t have such features, which any non-trivial app (say, Django, wordpress, etc) benefits from tremendously. You also discover ingress resources and controllers, which make trivial so many things that are difficult with Swarm, like TLS termination. You declare what should be true, and Kubernetes takes care of the rest.Īnd the features it provides are useful for any-sized application! If you try kubernetes you quickly discover persistent volumes and statefulsets, which take away most of the complexities out of stateful applications (ie most applications). Kubernetes is actually the orchestration equivalent of React. The myth that kubernetes is complicated is largely perpetuated by the same kind of people who say React is complicated: the people who’ve not tried it.Īnd like React, once you try kubernetes you never go back. I run a single node on GKE and it’s awesome, easy, and very cheap. Kubernetes on the other hand is trivial with GKE. The Docker machine dev team is a tired, understaffed bunch that’s always playing a sisyphean whack-a-mole against dozens of cloud providers and very needy posters on Github, myself included. Docker machine is great except it’s often broken. By hand it’s not trivial to get a secure install. I’ve had all sort of difficulties installing Docker. So confused by all the posts from people who say they run Swarm because kubernetes is too complicated or is only for huge deployments.
