Re:DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product
by plokiju21 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:28PM
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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?
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Re:DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product
by mejamiewilson on Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:29PM
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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.
Re:DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product
by lucasyvas on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:59PM
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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.