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0 pointsdsnuh7y ago0 comments

An on-prem "production ready" k8s cluster in under a day? What kind of businesses are you setting this up for? Are these all greenfield projects? I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that.

We run on-prem k8s, on bare metal and VMs. Integration with existing storage (we use NetApp Solidfire and NFS), load balancers, firewalls, backup strategy, DR, etc. takes weeks, if not months of work. But we may disagree on what "production ready" means.

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whydoineedthis7y ago

Whom said anything about on-prem? on-prem anything takes weeks and has nothing to do with kubernetes. AWS, production ready. I could probably do google too, but it would take a couple weeks to write the automation first. Also, if your on-prem system is already well organized, the kubernetes portion can also be done 1-2 days. If it takes you weeks to attach storage, load balancers, and configure your firewalls, none of that has anything to do with a production ready kubernetes cluster.

dsnuhOP7y ago

My apologies is I misread what you said, it looked like your reply was to "anyone running their own cluster is insane" in the previous comment. And as I said, to me that means "on their own bare metal servers".

I'm talking about getting a Kubernetes cluster (of any kind really, but specifically on-prem) _integrated_ and doing useful things with existing legacy workflows inside your company using an existing infrastructure is a larger task than I see it made out to be.

Draiken7y ago

Key word there being "on-prem".

The hard part of Kubernetes is setting up the cluster. If you are using an existing k8s master, it should be fairly easy.

One day of course seems like a bit of an exaggeration to me :)

dsnuhOP7y ago

I thought GP comment was replying to this in GGP comment:

>IMO running your own Kubernetes cluster for a company is insanity unless you have a very good reason to do so.

To me, "running your own" means "on-prem", and it did seem to me that the response of "I can create production ready in a day" was directed at that, which I whole-heartedly disagree with.

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whydoineedthis7y ago

dsnuhOP7y ago

Draiken7y ago

Key word there being "on-prem".

The hard part of Kubernetes is setting up the cluster. If you are using an existing k8s master, it should be fairly easy.

One day of course seems like a bit of an exaggeration to me :)

dsnuhOP7y ago

I thought GP comment was replying to this in GGP comment:

>IMO running your own Kubernetes cluster for a company is insanity unless you have a very good reason to do so.

To me, "running your own" means "on-prem", and it did seem to me that the response of "I can create production ready in a day" was directed at that, which I whole-heartedly disagree with.

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