A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)
Summary
A skeptical, experience-based look at Kubernetes from someone who avoided it for years, aiming to ground opinions in facts. The piece covers core concepts (Pod, Node, Service, Namespace), explains control loops and the role of kube-proxy, and discusses storage and deployment patterns, while offering critiques of complexity, templating (Helm), and the balance between cloud-native architecture and practical operation.