Kubernetes - the App Deployment Platform of the Future Today!
August 15, 2018
Kubernetes - the App Deployment Platform of the Future Today!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kubernetes
Kubernetes has become the microservice container orchestration platform of choice. All our software deployed into Kubernetes - including public websites.
- Scales extremely well
- Handles proper rolling updates of microservices
- Makes it super easy to establish a proper CI/CD pipeline
- Makes it easy for developers to adopt and therefore use
- Could improve user access. Currently uses RBAC - but depending on your implementation (i.e. Amazon EKS) - setting up permissions and adding users to the cluster that are to use the cluster only is sometimes challenging.
- Security can always be improved
- Hooks for identity management; there are open source projects (i.e. Dex) - would be nice to see these adopted to the mainline
- UI Dashboard needs some major improvments
- Has negated the need to hire people to manage deployment/operations as the development team can now work in a true ‘devops’ manner
- Biggest downtime is less than 5 minutes to upgrade a microservice; usually not even noticed by users
- Improved development cycle due to being able to implement a proper CI/CD pipeline
I used OpenShift v2 - which was pre-Kubernetes. (It now uses Kubernetes under the hood - but keeps it fairly hidden). Kubernetes was a ton more stable and easier to use. No more custom CLI to use in order to script together deployments. No more messy ‘push your entire code base to us’ in order to deploy out.