Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login The Cult of Kubernetes ( christine.website ) 371 points by tannhaeuser 16 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 290 comments help root_axis 5 hours ago This is another case of "I have never encountered and don't deeply understand the problems this tool was built to solve, thus the tool is totally unnecessary and the people who use it are part of a cult". This is the same kind of flawed reasoning you see in the front-end world where a bunch of people complain that they do all their work in jQuery so React must be a cult. Pasting what I wrote in another comment: The goal isn't "ease of deployment", the goal is "infrastructure as code" so that application infrastructure can be managed in a way similar to application source code (e.g. PRs, blame, code reviews, CI, rollbacks etc). This ...