Portable-Stack

Once upon a time, I was sitting in front of my laptop with an IDE where hundreds of different Kubernetes manifests were opened and I was thinking: “how come I am in this moment? I need to add a new service, but to do it, I have to keep in my mind zillions of details and configure dozens of files instead promised by marketing ’little changes’”. It wasn’t my first frustrating time: I have always been thinking that the current practice of how to set up an environment is slightly more complicated than needed for micro/small businesses especially for pet projects. Yes, even in pet-projects we want to have automatic TLS, backups, databases, security, and other useful stuff. The system should be scalable. While those reasons sound like the truth, it also feels like the IT road turned somewhere wrong. ...