What's the practical use?

I too am curious about this...

But but if all of Wikipedia fits on a USB drive, what do they need the millions and millions of Dollars for? /s

The EU is .. has become such a dystopia that I'm scared living in the EU.

It starts with the basics, the Lisboa treaty. It goes on with the recent "copyright" reform and their ever increasing need to know everything about the people who live in the areas the EU oversees.

I'm especially scared that the laws of the EU are such that we the people can't do anything to change what "those up there" decide.

Just a recent example, the Russiaphobia. I'm absolutely against confrontation, against censorship and sanctions, yet the EU rulers, which are no more than US puppets are just pushing this agenda, confrontation, war, propaganda, increased military spending. We can't afford a 2nd cold or hot war. But those idiots push and push and agitate and keep making stupid decisions. I feel like my life is wasted because it's always the same old world domination by the US and the EU must follow everything the US says. I'm so sick of it.

When you have such a hostile and unjust system in place that acts against the interests of its population, of course there are local right wing political parties that take advantage of that. This political system is encouraging nationalism and racism because it's built on a non-democratic basis.

The digital ID is just yet another step in the direction of the abusive relationship this "EU" has with its "subjects".

I'd have to disagree. I tried docker compose and swarm. nothing but issues. I went back to old fashioned bash

what's wrong with git clone go build systemctl restart my-service

Why would I want to proxy through docker?

This question refers to the benefits of containerization and not Kubernetes. But to answer your question: your command is dependent on (1) the availability of Git, (2) Go and (3) systemd on your host OS. Without containers, this list of dependencies is dynamic and can change in size for every project. With containers, the list of dependencies reduces to one dependency only for every project: Docker.

"they" never learn because it's too complex to setup and maintain.

A managed service is too expensive, up to factor 200 prices for outgoing traffic vs a dedicated server with flat traffic (e.g. Hetzner)

> Trying to rebuild that basic functionality using ad hoc solutions takes way more time and rapidly becomes more cumbersome as the wheel gets reinvented when k8s as a platform has well documented solutions/tools.

That is just not true. 1 day if you know what you're doing. If you use a well performing language you won't even need scaling for a very long while, unless you expect like "Eurovision Song Contest" type of concurrent users.

Running your own DNS isn't as hard as you think

I'm not saying that it's too hard at all (even though servers like BIND could probably use some UX improvements), just that not everyone would approve of you running your own server for any given project. And sometimes adding/changing records on the org-wide server must be "thrown over the wall", which will be slow.

Furthermore, if you have 5 different projects that you need to work on and each of those would have their own separate DNS servers, you might find yourself in a slightly uncomfortable situation.

Most container orchestration solutions don't have that problem, because they embed their own server and provide the necessary proxying solutions so that you may connect to the cluster from outside as well.

Try setting it up on your own without Ubuntu doing the legwork. Set up a 3 node control pane, the deployment servers and storage.

You come off as very arrogant who believes he knows everything, some humility would suit you well, but I think all pseudo smart Germans are like that.

> Try setting it up on your own without Ubuntu doing the legwork.

Why? Do you also see any purpose in hopping on one foot to work instead of driving there?

I don't understand what leads people like you to try to move goalposts to pretend something is harder than it is or needs to be.

I've set up quite a few kubernetes clusters on my own, and relied on the clusters I've built for production services at both startups and big tech companies. I've done quite a bit with both local storage and network storage via Ceph.

I am not German, and I have never been to Germany. If we're trading wild speculation about personal details, I think you could use some ambition and self-confidence.