1 year ago

Kubernetes is hard — to paraphrase the words of what one of Kubernetes’ main creators https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbeda/ wrote a few years ago in one of his seminal essays on Kubernetes. Flash forward a few years later, and Kubernetes is still painstakingly difficult for most organizations to manage.

“Organizations moving existing apps to Kubernetes containers, either after or without chopping them up into microservices is the biggest challenge.

Acorn — Acorn Labs’ “first open source project” — introduces a “developer-friendly” approach to deploying applications on Kubernetes, https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengliang CEO at Acorn Labs and co-founder with Acorn Labs President https://twitter.com/smw355 (both also co-founded Rancher Labs), said.

Another key technical challenge of such tools is how to deliver a simple user experience without compromising the power of Kubernetes, Acorn Labs’ founders said.