[throwaway892238]

When people call Kubernetes a "great piece of technology", I find it the same as people saying the United States is the "greatest country in the world". Oh yeah? Great in what sense? Large? Absolutely. Powerful? Definitely. But then the adjectives sort of take a turn... Complicated? Expensive? Problematic? Threatening? A quagmire? You betcha.

If there were an alternative to Kubernetes that were just 10% less confusing, complicated, opaque, monolithic, clunky, etc, we would all be using it. But because Kubernetes exists, and everyone is using it, there's no point in trying to make an alternative. It would take years to reach feature parity, and until you do, you can't really switch away. It's like you're driving an 18-wheeler, and you think it kinda sucks, but you can't just buy and then drive a completely different 18 wheeler for only a couple of your deliveries.

You probably will end up using K8s at some point in the next 20 years. There's not really an alternative that makes sense. As much as it sucks, and as much as it makes some things both more complicated and harder, if you actually need everything it provides, it makes no sense to DIY, and there is no equivalent solution.

[p_l]

People forgot just how much of a mess Mesos environment was in comparison.

And often pushed Nomad to this day surprises me with randomly missing a feature or two that turns out to be impactful enough to want to deal with more complexity because ultimately the result was less complexity in total.