I really want to like Kubernetes, but going beyond the basics seems to require a way higher understanding of systems engineering than I currently have. Yes I know you can create container networks and stateful pods with attached storage, but how is always seemingly beyond me. Network and storage in distributed computing is hard and Kubernetes seems to be a slightly more magical bullet than Docker Swarm alone.
Completely agree... Going beyond the basics is really hard. But as I understand it's because of inadequate knowledge of advanced network/storage virtualization concepts. Any help on how to get started in those? As a side note I have decent knowledge of basic networking/storage.
Look up persistent volume claims and dynamic provisioning. If you cluster is properly configured, then you are one yaml file away from having that. By "configured properly" this means having the correct cloud provider set, otherwise it cannot talk to the APIs.
To be fair, this stateful containers in general are a relatively new thing in K8s and support has been improving.
Also, K8s is trying to do and abstract away a lot, it is more like a distributed operating system by itself. So it is more complicated than swarm.
