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Re:A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just t... by samvher on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:20AM (#21023756)
GKE and EKS are very expensive which in my opinion makes using them unattractive for smaller scale projects. But Digital Ocean now offers managed Kubernetes for free, I've played around with it and it actually seems really easy to set up and manage. Would be great if the competition would follow suit.
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Re:A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just t... by jorams on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:45AM (#21023833)
> GKE and EKS are very expensive

> Digital Ocean now offers managed Kubernetes for free

GKE is just as "free" as DO, in that you only pay for the nodes you actually use (those nodes are probably a bit more expensive, admittedly). EKS is the outlier in this trio in that you also have to pay (a lot) for the master. Could you clarify what GKE could do to "follow suit"?

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Re:A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just t... by samvher on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:50AM (#21025575)
It seems, nothing! I was just wrong about GKE being expensive, not sure why I thought that (though it seems that until late 2017 they did have costs per cluster).
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