This morning, I participated in numerous calls. In one of them, we were defining the new infrastructure for an e-commerce site. It doesn't require extreme HA or extreme scalability, but the ability to grow eventually. On the call, there were myself, the e-commerce owner, and another sysadmin (who handles other tasks but wanted to join).
I proposed my usual standard solution: a FreeBSD server divided into jails with various services, separate datasets for the database files and website files, etc. My colleague jumped in, saying, "Well, why not Kubernetes on Linux?" I explained that, for this type of setup, in my opinion, Kubernetes is superfluous and that, for many reasons, FreeBSD could be a better choice.
He started a whole discussion about how the BSDs are dead, that Linux is everywhere now, and that it's necessary to use it for this type of system too.
I emphasized that a plurality of choices can only be positive, but to no avail.
In the end, the client (who has some technical knowledge, but I didn't expect that much), to my great surprise, ruled: "You're talking to me about Kubernetes, and I want a simple structure. You're talking about Linux; I want FreeBSD. I don't want the latest startup toy; I want what has worked for many years. And it works well."
Although I don't fully agree with his statement (Kubernetes is, in my opinion, an incredibly powerful tool, not the latest startup toy), his lucidity earned him a 30% discount on his hosting cost 😄
#FreeBSD #Linux #Kubernetes #ecommerce #infrastructure #sysadmin #opensource
Stefano Marinelli /
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2024-06-17 19:14:21
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