An unrequited love letter to Portainer
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Dear Portainer,
I chose you carefully.
I already had Docker. I already had Git. `master` for production, `develop` for staging. All I needed was a good Docker + Git CD platform, so I did my homework and chose you.
Meanwhile, my coworkers were deploying `.rar` files. If they were feeling fancy, `.zip`. Not even `.tgz`.
Then Jesus personally invented **a heap of linear algebra that spits out autocomplete**, and suddenly everybody was a developer.
So I got them on Git. They made Dockerfiles. They made stacks. They got staging and production. They got continuous deployment.
And now here we are:
**5 nodes. 50 applications. 100 developers.**
Everything happily chugging along.
Then you looked me in the eyes and said:
> **Friendship ended with Docker. Kubernetes is my best friend now.**
Portainer.
My love.
Now I have two choices:
**Kubernetes:** rework the entire codebase *and* infrastructure.
**Alternatively:** “only” rework the entire infrastructure.
After all the work I put into making this beautiful little Docker ecosystem work, this is how you repay me?
**We've been tricked. We've been backstabbed, and we've been, quite possibly, bamboozled.**