Why Kubernetes? Should you roll your own servers? Should you go off the cloud?

If you’ve listened to The Changelog #344 — where we cover the details of Changelog.com’s 2019 infrastructure with special guest Gerhard Lazu — then you’ll know the answer to these questions. But if not, as you might assume, I recommend listening to that episode and reading this post from Ev, in that order.

In this three-part blog series, we’ll try to address some of the fears and uncertainties faced by organizations who had successfully started their projects on public clouds, like AWS, but for one reason or another found themselves needing to replicate their cloud environment from scratch, starting with an empty rack in their own enterprise server room or a colocation facility.