The Daily WTF

A large company with facilities all over the Asia-Pacific region opted to modernize. They’d just finished a pile of internal development that extended the functionality of a 3rd party package, and they wanted to containerize the whole shebang.

That’s where Fred came in, about 9 months into a 12 month effort. Things hadn’t gone well, but a lot of the struggles were growing pains. Many of the containers were built as gigantic monoliths. A lot of the settings you might need to do a Kubernetes deployment weren’t properly configured. It was a mess, but it wasn’t a WTF, just a lot of work.

The efforts of building the containerized, K8s deployments changed the company culture. The new rule was “container all the things”, and all the things got containerized. Management was happy to be checking off new buzzwords, and the IT team was happy to have any sort of organization

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