Real-World, Self-Hosted Kubernetes Experience
Michael David Packard, Joe Stubbs, Justin A. Drake, Christian R. Garcia · Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2021
Containerized applications have exploded in popularity in recent years, due to their ease of deployment, reproducible nature, and speed of startup. Accordingly, container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes have emerged as resource providers and users alike try to organize and scale their work across clusters of systems. This paper documents some real-world experiences of building, operating, and using self-hosted Kubernetes Linux clusters. It aims at comparisons between Kubernetes and single-node container solutions and traditional multi-user, batch queue Linux clusters.