Right now, GKE charges $18/month for a load balancer on top of node costs, which is costly for small scale/personal projects. Will DigitalOcean have anything similar?

Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Currently we'll deploy our DigitalOcean Load Balancer on your behalf, which is $20 a month, but we are also investigating other options. If you have any thoughts on how this should work, or what specifically you'd be looking for, I'd love to hear them.

Speaking personally, I'd rather opt out of the Load Balancer altogether and instead have a floating IP automatically set up across the workers. Ingresses are easy enough to set up so that would complete the picture.

I think having the Load Balancer option is important for simplicity, but I feel a lot of DO customers (such as myself) opt to use DO for optimizing cost as well. It's a balance.

Will be possible to run it in a single node scenario?

Yes, you’ll be able to spin up a single node cluster.

Will there be a minimum size for a worker node?

Currently it’s our $5 droplet (1GB RAM, 1 vCPU), but if you have a use case for smaller nodes I’d love to hear about it!

Awesome! The TechCrunch article [0] shows "16GB -> 192GB" in the screenshot so I just wanted to confirm.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/digital-ocean-launches-its...

What about a competing product to AWS's lambda?

Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Kubernetes on DigitalOcean is the first step for us to enable more managed services like Lambda. You will be able to deploy projects like OpenFaaS or Fn very simply, but currently you would still need to determine your node pool for capacity.

DING DING DING

If you guys offered a lambda competitor with similarly competitive compute/bandwidth pricing I'd be all over it in a second.

You could run Kubeless on k8s on DO

Excellent thanks for sharing!