Did we reinvent the wheel?
summary
A Python wrapper does variable replacement and shells out to kops, kubectl and the aws cli to compile code, build docker image, deploy to cluster with a one‑line command; split into code / image / cluster phases. It spins up personal clusters fast and lowers onboarding cost, but is brittle — reliance on kops naming broke builds, CLI fallbacks fail on some Windows shells, and it doesn’t produce reproducible release artifacts. Team later favors terraform, helm, boto or managed EKS for production.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Requirements
- 2:44Solution Overview
- 5:27Weaknesses
- 10:08Tradeoffs
- 13:07Alternatives
- 15:34Reflections
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