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Re:The Fargate Illusion by jkaplowitz on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:41PM (#19660628)
He acknowledges your point in the article but says that most people don't have to administer their own cluster VMs - GKE makes it easiest but he also mentions a smooth experience with DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes, for example.
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Re:The Fargate Illusion by maldeh on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:48PM (#19660960)
Fargate's purpose was never to magically make container orchestration go away, though - it's just a managed compute layer you plug into via the other orchestration frameworks (ECS or EKS). Really the apples-to-apples comparison should be DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes with EKS (and there are a lot of valid points to raise there, to be sure).

The real value-add of Fargate is pay-for-what-you-use, when your task queue is idle and your bill drops to zero with no extra orchestration (something that the article seemingly completely missed).

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Re:The Fargate Illusion by YawningAngel on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:20PM (#19661461)
The level of orchestration required to achieve this on GKE is pretty minimal.
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