--- title: Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes | daily.dev description: A satirical open letter arguing that developers who try to avoid Kubernetes often end up reinventing it piece by piece. Through a narrative of incremental... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dear-friend-you-have-built-a-kubernetes-mtd9srqxx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes | daily.dev og:description: A satirical open letter arguing that developers who try to avoid Kubernetes often end up reinventing it piece by piece. Through a narrative of incremental... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dear-friend-you-have-built-a-kubernetes-mtd9srqxx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mtd9SrQXX.png og:image:alt: Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A satirical open letter arguing that developers who try to avoid Kubernetes often end up reinventing it piece by piece. Through a narrative of incremental complexity — deploy scripts, multi-server networking, Ansible, and a custom container API — the author shows how avoiding Kubernetes leads to building an undocumented, fragile equivalent. 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