Gitpod's Journey: From Kubernetes To New Abstraction
Gitpod.io moved away from Kubernetes after facing challenges, opting for a new solution that better fits their workload needs.
This is a story (and discussion) about Gitpod.io's journey in and out of Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an amazing piece of technology, widely used for obvious reasons. But as with many things, it's not the right abstraction/solution for every product or workload. Gitpod provides standardized and automated development environments, and it was built to run on Kubernetes because they thought that's the right abstraction. Over the years they faced different challenges and tried various solutions, and after all that, they decided to move away from k8s. I invited the CTO of Gitpod, Chris Weichel, to thi...