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		banifo on May 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? Why? We have plenty of yaml 'code' which is simple and does exactly what it needs to do. For all other usecases, there are plenty of alternatives, including libs for your preferred language. Most people use the yaml way because its easy and does exactly what it needs to do. Everyone else has plenty of well supported and well working alternatives.

kasey_junk on May 30, 2020 [–]

Its typing is too weak. It’s block scoping is dangerous. References, classes and attachments are all pretty bad for reuse. Schemas are bolt on and there is no standard query language for it.

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