A hot take was shared in our chat yesterday: Gitpod wrote an article on why they moved away from Kubernetes.

While the title sounds clickbaity, this is actually a good article that explains technical considerations for a very particular use case. It also has links to some Kubernetes' functionality that you may find useful for your workloads, such as dynamic resource allocation.

Where did they migrate, you may ask? Well, I can spoil the article for you a little bit: they have built their own orchestrator. Now, do I think this is a good solution? In their very specific use case, it may be. Is it a good solution in general? In my opinion, hell no!

P.S. I'd like to invite Gitpod folks to the FOSDEM conference. For example, in 2023 there was a talk on how to checkpoint and restore your containers in Kubernetes. According to their article, this feature, or rather a lack of it, was a major pain for them.

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