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Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

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152 points rgun | 1 comments | 04 Dec 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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JohnMakin ◴[04 Dec 25 08:21 UTC] No.46145088[source]▶
Having spent most of my career in kubernetes (usually managed by cloud), I always wonder when I see things like this, what is the use case or benefit of not having a control plane?

To me, the control plane is the primary feature of kubernetes and one I would not want to go without.

I know this describes operational overhead as a reason, but how it relates to the control plane is not clear to me. even managing a few hundred nodes and maybe 10,000 containers, relatively small - I update once a year and the managed cluster updates machine images and versions automatically. Are people trying to self host kubernetes for production cases, and that’s where this pain comes from?

Sorry if it is a rude question.

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1. kelnos ◴[04 Dec 25 09:03 UTC] No.46145389[source]▶
> a few hundred nodes and maybe 10,000 containers, relatively small

That feels not small to me. For something I'm working on I'll probably have two nodes and around 10 containers. If it works out and I get some growth, maybe that will go up to, say, 5-7 nodes and 30 or so containers? I dunno. I'd like some orchestration there, but k8s feels way too heavy even for my "grown" case.

I feel like there are potentially a lot of small businesses at this sort of scale?