Sharing Content: Saying goodbye to PaaS and IaaS

Interesting article there. You’re right we don’t typically say goodbye to technologies in the industry (how long has tape been ‘dead’ for now?) The truth is that we find benefits and drawbacks to every technology. This is why we still can see services running on physical servers instead of all virtual. Anything timing sensitive such as network traffic or telephony will have a better result running on physical vs virtual, but at the trade off of the loss of virtualisation management and ease of reconfiguration.

I see the same happening with Kubernetes, we’ll see this enable new methods of consumption, but not all workloads will need to adapt to Kubernetes. Will we see services such as Active Directory used within Kubernetes? Sure it’s possible, but what benefits vs drawbacks would it bring.

As with any technology, we’ll learn lessons along the way of unexpected dependencies, chicken & egg scenarios etc that will allow us to ask the right questions on evaluating the platform for our workloads. But just like with virtualisation, I do expect the architecting question to transitionfrom “why should we use Kubernetes” to “why should we not use Kubernetes”, just like virtualisation before it.

Very interesting article but not sure we can say goodbye to those services just yet.  We will have to see where things go in the future.