Yeah I am deep in the kube world as well. Since this industry-wide shift started happening, I feel like I write essentially no code anymore outside of bash scripts to glue things together. It’s essential but it’s not a replacement.
This cartoon seemed to me to be suggesting that you could implement the behavior of kube with bash. That’s obviously absurd.
This is dumb.
You could do all that stuff with bash scripts but it would be a management nightmare. You’d also be completely reinventing the wheel.
If anyone seriously thinks this is a good idea, please post your LinkedIn so I know to never hire you.
Don’t overthink this. Just start using something.
I set my mom up on slackware like 15+ years ago. She wouldn’t have known how to break it if she tried.
The unix philosophy is about what runs as processes at the system level.
I don’t know what you mean by “system level” (cat is userspace) but I don’t believe there is any clarification about what kind of applications should apply to the unix philosophy or not. It doesn’t say that applications “should do one thing and do it well only if it is a system process or terminal based program built for purely shell environments.”
Also, if the argument was exclusively about OS processes, dbus should be in the firing line of everyone in the anti-systemd camp too. That never gets the same level of hate.
The unix philosophy is old and, while nice to have, is insufficient to fully address the needs of the modern world. It’s not as simple today as it was in the 1960s and 70s and we need to embrace change to progress.
Does too much for one tool (against unix philosophy)
This tired, old argument needs to die already.
Do you use browser extensions? That breaks unix philosophy too.
Struggling to think of what purpose systemd would serve in docker…
Yeah I agree. It was rolled out pretty early in its development maturity so it undoubtedly left a bad taste in some people’s mouths. Overall it’s a net positive though. I don’t want to go back to the old way.
It’s Ross Mathews.