spaced repetition prompts - blog section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes

^ spaced repetition prompts - blog section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes

Blog Post -- Section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes

Which roles sit in the control plane? ? The Mayor and The Deacon.

Contrast the three-word descriptions of the purpose of Kubernetes vs. Gas Town. ? Kubernetes: "Is it running?" Gas Town: "Is it done?"

What does Kubernetes optimize for vs. what does Gas Town optimize for? ? Kubernetes optimizes for uptime — keep N replicas alive forever. Gas Town optimizes for completion — finish the work, land the convoy, then nuke the worker.

In Kubernetes, pods are anonymous cattle. What plays the "cattle" role in Gas Town? ? Sessions. Polecats are credited workers with persistent identities — it's their sessions that are disposable.

What is the Gas Town equivalent of a Kubernetes Node? ? A Rig.

What is the Gas Town equivalent of a kubelet? ? The Witness — a local agent on each Rig monitoring ephemeral workers.

What is the Gas Town equivalent of etcd? ? Beads — the git-backed source of truth the whole system reconciles against.

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