Dave Winer on Kubernetes and the wrong path.

I keep reading about Kubernetes and how it’s taking over the world, but every piece also says it’s very complicated. Why? Heroku set the initial prior art in this area. It’s easy to get started with. Here we are many years later, it seems we are going the wrong way. Or am I missing the point.

No, Dave, you’re not missing the point. Kubernetes is the project of a bunch of very young, intelligent people who, like most in the IT world, didn’t bother to do their research or history homework. It’s basically re-inventing poorly and insecurely a bunch of technologies that have already solved problems, or have already proven non-workable.

IT people of every generation (and a generation in IT is about eight years) seem to feel the need to re-invent the wheel, and Kubernetes is one of those wheels. Problem is, it’s kind of a square wheel, with some gaps, and every few thousand miles or so it just explodes. But, hey, it’s new! And shiny! And isn’t that what matters?