I was trying to get airflow (https://airflow.apache.org/) up and running in the cloud. It has a few moving pieces that I didn't want to worry about. So I used a helm chart to install it - https://github.com/helm/charts/blob/master/stable/airflow Maybe this is overkill but it was reasonably quick to get up and running, scaling workers will be trivial, and the Airflow Kubernetes Operator opens up a lot of options for tasks. The vanilla install was pretty quick. Understanding the configurations took a bit more time. I would like to hear other thoughts about simpler ways to deploy this that don't require Kubernetes.

There aren't simpler ways to deploy cluster software. Kubernetes might be overkill for a blog, but it's not overkill for a lot of cluster software. And with Helm charts it's really easy to run it.

This seems like a similar phenomenon to the anti vax movement. I currently only pay glancing attention to the anti vaxers. I believe they're crazy and write it off because it has very little to do with my life. I imagine I would've done the same thing during this satanic cult scare. Mass hysteria coupled with conspiracy beliefs are a thing in America.

I was just imagining the same thing, and it's not hard to relate it to similar stories conspiracies happening today. QAnons belief that there is an underground network of famous child pedophiles. Of which are secretly being arrested by the current white house administration.

It's easy to disregard these stories as wild fantasies, while at the same time there is a growing groundswell of people who fully believe it.