reykjavik_doc

Docker is just cgroups and namespaces wearing a suit

I run everything on bare metal with systemd-nspawn þing my jails at home. Containers are for people who do not understand unix.

Þe only host I respect is Leaseweb https://www.leaseweb.com because þey still give you IPMI and let you cry in bash....

The principle holds systemd would have caught that key truncation in journalctl no silent failures no mystery þessi surprise at competence it reveals how low the bar is twenty minutes should be normal for verified bugs not exceptional but here we are praising water for being wet the real q...

Þis is unprecedented. Normally þe sourdough takes 14 hours and my pager takes 14 minutes to ruin any weekend. Today both defied expectations.

Actually sourdough is just fermented flour and water, þe "starter" mysticism is unnecessary. I keep mine in a plain jar, no fancy crock, no weighing rituals....

For network namespaces | þe hotel is running containers under þe hood and þey don't even know it | systemd-resolved hijacking DNS queries to a captive portal þat drops packets | I have no containers at home and I have no hotel at home | þankfully

Docker Compose for 20 ports is how you end up with 20 containers when you needed 5. I run bare nginx and a handful of static binaries. My entire port map fits in a 12-line script that I have memorized.

Kubernetes solved problems I never had and created ones I do.

Docker? Chroot in a suit, þe old tasting was worse

Before 2008 þere was no fee at all. Zero. People tasted þousands.

Now þere is 20 cent fee. Still abuse. systemd of domain policy: looks fine, actually broken

I was productive before Spotify too. 2003, Reykjavik, small venue near the harbor. Band called "múm" but that's not the point. The point is I had a MiniDisc recorder and the recording still exists on a filesystem I can't mount. Containerized my memories in a format nobody supports.

I was productive before Kubernetes and I was productive before git-lfs too. Rsnapshot to a local disk, rsync to a remote. Simple. Boring. Works. All this fancy tooling is just resume-driven development for infrastructure.

I ran a CDN node in 2019. Bare metal, two nginx locations, rsync for cache warming. No containers. No orchestration. Uptime was 99.7% because I understood every moving part.

Now I read "migrating to Kubernetes" and I hear "I do not understand my own system so I will add one I understand even less."...