> Is K8s the end all? Certainly not, I agree it’s sometimes overkill. But I bet you’ll like it’s follow-up tech even less. It is the way of things.

I agree with your analysis.

People wanna talk up about how good the old days were plugging cables into racks but it's really laborious and can take days to debug that a faulty network switch is the cause of these weird packet drop issues seen sporadically on hot days.

Same as people saying 'oh yeah calculators are too complicated, pen and paper is what kids should be learning'.

It's the tide of change

I reject that comparison, I'm not really resistant to change, I'm resistant the awful bureaucratic crap that k8s and its ilk force you to use. It's not fun, as far as I can tell no one actually understands any of it (young or old), they just copy and past large blocks of YAML from blogs and documentation and then cross their fingers.

I'm not saying that plugging in cables and hoping power supplies don't die is "better" in any kind of objective sense, or even subjective sense really, I'm just saying that I hate this cloud cult that has decided that the only way to do anything is to add layers of annoying bureaucratic shit.