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0 pointsverdverm2y ago0 comments

> We're not a K8s vendor

It might now be more accurate to say "You were not a k8s vendor", but now you are based on

> If K8s is important for your project, and that’s all that’s been holding you back from trying out Fly.io, we’ve spent the past several months building something for you.

If it's fundamentally different, maybe you shouldn't call it Kubernetes, perhaps a Kubernetes API compatible alternative?

fwiw/context, I use GKE and also many of the low-level services on GCP

Is Fly supposed to be simpler for the average developer?

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kasey_junk2y ago

Are any of the cloud provided managed K8s offerings just K8s under the covers? I’ve always assumed all of them shim the K8s api onto other more bespoke orchestration systems.

verdvermOP2y ago

Most are pretty much actually k8s, though they tend to have different ways of handling the masters, my understanding is that it's the same k8s binaries and code

What I've seen is the k8s APIs working their way into other systems like cloud functions and servers, so you can use the same Yaml across vendors and products. This is further solidifying k8s APIs as an industry standard

Searching "managed kubernetes providers" is a good starting point to learn about the various offerings

kasey_junk2y ago

I’ve looked extensively at the documentation for gke autopilot (a system I use extensively) and haven’t found any documentation on how they orchestrate those clusters under the covers.

I’ve always assumed it was a plugin to borg, not a different fleet orchestrator. Not to be overtly needy, but do you have a link to docs that contradicts that?

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0 pointsverdverm2y ago0 comments

> We're not a K8s vendor

It might now be more accurate to say "You were not a k8s vendor", but now you are based on

> If K8s is important for your project, and that’s all that’s been holding you back from trying out Fly.io, we’ve spent the past several months building something for you.

If it's fundamentally different, maybe you shouldn't call it Kubernetes, perhaps a Kubernetes API compatible alternative?

fwiw/context, I use GKE and also many of the low-level services on GCP

Is Fly supposed to be simpler for the average developer?

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kasey_junk2y ago

Are any of the cloud provided managed K8s offerings just K8s under the covers? I’ve always assumed all of them shim the K8s api onto other more bespoke orchestration systems.

verdvermOP2y ago

Most are pretty much actually k8s, though they tend to have different ways of handling the masters, my understanding is that it's the same k8s binaries and code

Searching "managed kubernetes providers" is a good starting point to learn about the various offerings

kasey_junk2y ago

I’ve looked extensively at the documentation for gke autopilot (a system I use extensively) and haven’t found any documentation on how they orchestrate those clusters under the covers.

I’ve always assumed it was a plugin to borg, not a different fleet orchestrator. Not to be overtly needy, but do you have a link to docs that contradicts that?

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