Kubernetes: The Orchestration Tax Most Teams Don't Need
Kubernetes was built to orchestrate Google’s global infrastructure. You are not Google. Terribly sorry. 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production. Most of them shouldn’t. The Control Plane Tax Before your application serves a single request, Kubernetes needs etcd chewing through 2-8 GB RAM per node. Then kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager, kubelet (reserving 25% of node memory by default), CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and a CNI plugin. All of this before your code runs. ...