Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?”
Is Kubernetes right for us? That’s a question that will have been asked many times, but perhaps not publicly, for fear of looking out of touch, or behind the curve. After all, the term “imposter syndrome” was coined to describe the anxiety we face as we try to keep current with technology and what is happening in the industry.
Pictured above: Gartner’s Hype Cycle describe the effect of new and innovating technology on the ecosystem, from inflated expectations, to disillusionment.
In this post I’ll introduce a real-life example from a consulting prospect, who asked me whether he should adopt Kubernetes, and a blog post that I wrote to show that there’s more to cloud than Kubernetes
Part 1 — There’s a spectrum
About six months ago, I wrote a blog post called “Your team might not need Kubernetes.” It was a simple hypothesis and I outlined several ways that a company with legacy IT could begin to modernise their applications, without necessarily making a leap directly to Kubernetes.
It starts off with the idea of cloud technology as a spectrum of complexity vs. potential benefits. At one end, you’re completely on-premises running on bare-metal on servers that you own or rent and are in full-control. At the other end, you’re running everything on…
