I've used them professionally during 0.9 times (2008.) and it was already quite useful and very stable (all advertised features worked).
17 years looks pretty good to me, Proxmox will not go away (neither product or company)
SuSE was my first Linux system and it helped a lot to spark my interest. Yast (software manager) and SaX (XFree86 configuration tool) were a Godsend for a noob like me in 199x.
It's still solid today, and I hold it in high regards, even if I moved to greener Linux pastures.
Podman beeing mostly compatible with docker was a wise choice. If you run rootless no way to break fw/network like docker can.
With podman in mind, one ought to try buildah and skopeo. Again, buildah can run Dockerfiles, but you are not constrained to the weird Dockerfile syntax.
Dunno, in new normal Germany, a refugee* from Palestine, seeking asylum from apartheid and maybe citizenship would first need to recognize the right of their occupator to exist. It is obviously much more important to fix sins from the past than help the living people. Politicians are full of ....
All while marches AfD closer to power every year.
* Lets pretend they could exit Gaza ot Eeast Bank.
Maybe shout out to HAProxy people, like many they've observed performance problems with OpenSSL 3.x series. But having good old OpenSSL with QUIC would be so convenient for distro packages etc
The cynical voice inside me says it works as intended. The purpose of k8s is not to help you run your business/project/whatever, but a way to ascend to DevOps Nirvana. That means never-ending cycle of upgrades for the purpose of upgrading.
I guess too many people are using k8s where they should have used something simpler. It's fashionable to follow the "best practices" of FAANGs, but I'm not sure that's healthy for vast majority of other companies, which are simply not on the same scale and don't have armies of engineers (guardians of the holy "Platform")
So when I "sideload" HAProxy with my application, handling (incoming!) and outgoing http(s) and tcp connections, balanving, failover, logging and what not, that is cool now and I get to call it Ambassador Sandwich Pattern.
This was actually the second time NATO has bombarded serbian forces, the first time was in Bosnia, which eventually led to Dayton peace agreement later that year: