I’ve been trying to figure out how to make it easier to manage cloud environments for about five years now. maybe longer. There are two schools of thought. One - anything at scale is hard, scale is hard, cloud at scale is hard too. theres no shortcuts. I hate this school, its too pessimistic. But it feels right, sadly.

The other school of thought is that we just really havent figured it out yet, maybe theres a tool, technique or method that is so radically simple and easy that it changes whole industries yet. Is this Kubernetes? I think its what Kubernetes wants to be but its not quite there yet. Kubernetes has issues. We’ll get to those in a future post. Maybe. Hopefully.

This site is setup to explore which of these schools is correct, hopefully #2, and maybe we’ll figure out what it would take to make the second school “real”. and maybe then, once we know what we are looking for in a cloud management system. Stay tuned!