Kamal feels built around the premise that "Kubernetes is too complicated" (after Basecamp got burned by some hired help), and from that justification it goes out and recreates a sizable chunk of the things Kubernetes does.
Your list of things a reverse proxy might do is a good example to me of how I expect this to go: what starts out as an ambition to be simple inevitably has to grow & grow more of complexity it sought to avoid.
Part of me strongly thinks we need competition & need other things trying to create broad ideally extensible ways or running systems. But a huge part of me sees Kamal & thinks, man, this is a lot of work being done only to have to keep walking backwards into the complexity they were trying to avoid. Usually second system syndrome is the first system being simple the second being overly complicated, and on the tin the case is inverse, but man, the competency of Kube & it's flexibility/adaptability as being a framework for Desired State Management really shows through for me.
I agree with you and at the risk of self-promotion, that's why we built Cloud 66 (which takes care of Day-1 (build and deploy) as well as Day-2 (scale and maintenance) part of infrastructure. As we all can see there is a lot to this than just wrapping code in a Dockerfile and pushing it out to a Swarm cluster.
> But a huge part of me sees Kamal & thinks, man, this is a lot of work being done only to have to keep walking backwards into the complexity they were trying to avoid.
Fully agree. I get resume-driven development vibes out of this project.
Your list of things a reverse proxy might do is a good example to me of how I expect this to go: what starts out as an ambition to be simple inevitably has to grow & grow more of complexity it sought to avoid.
Part of me strongly thinks we need competition & need other things trying to create broad ideally extensible ways or running systems. But a huge part of me sees Kamal & thinks, man, this is a lot of work being done only to have to keep walking backwards into the complexity they were trying to avoid. Usually second system syndrome is the first system being simple the second being overly complicated, and on the tin the case is inverse, but man, the competency of Kube & it's flexibility/adaptability as being a framework for Desired State Management really shows through for me.