Container networking is simple.

Lord, what a dipshit. “Simple,” then proceeds to write a 4,000 word guide about this “simple” thing.

I’m pretty good at networking, and I understand the entire article, but even in my own field I think only about 10% would. Anything involving containers is absurdly and needlessly complex and you can tell it was designed to be programmer-friendly as it has 50 layers of complexity when anything production-ready should have far less than that.

Anytime you have to manually set up IP masquerading to make something function correctly, you can no longer claim the mantle of simplicity. If anyone ever has to troubleshoot this, they just won’t be able to. I know the ethos of the container assclowns is just “destroy it all and rebuild” but that only gets you so far — and not very far at that.

Be glad when the containerization trend ends — which it will. It’s too complex for most who attempt to use it, and also very fragile. But it makes the cloud providers loads of money.