Re:Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
by segmondy on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:42PM
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I don't know your location, but if you are in the US and running your own k8s on baremetals, I would reckon you should have at least 1 full time person on staff to handle all of it. Let's say that person costs only $50k/yr. Will your workload on Google cost more than $50k? Google pretty much really does all of the management for GKE. Just deploy your app and run.
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Re:Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
by cardine on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:13PM
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>I would reckon you should have at least 1 full time person on staff to handle all of it.
What exactly would that person be handling? We probably spend no more than a couple hours per week handling everything involved. That's the point of something like Kubernetes in the first place.
>Will your workload on Google cost more than $50k?
Our sever bill with GKE would far exceed $50k/yr (it would exceed $50k/mo!)
As a result, Hetzner is a no-brainer for us. As mentioned before, that might be different for you if you are doing something that is computationally light.
Re:Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
by Drdrdrq on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:10PM
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Well if you are running k8s you already have that person. The real question is, is it worth putting additional load on that person in exchange for savings?
Re:Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
by mijamo on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:17AM
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That is not my experience with GKE. And 50k/y is super low with Google Cloud. It's really easy to get at least 5 times higher even with a small application.
Funnily I spend more time administrating GKE than I do with applications on VPS.