Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)

Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019) by Legogris on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:03PM (#22036880)

I disagree here - there's definitely some minimum amount of resources you want to use to make k8s worth it memory- and CPU-wise. You may be able to get by with 1 CPU and 1GB of RAM for your master (which is just coordinating, not running any workloads), and there's some overhead on the workers as well.

I've been looking at running k8s at some raspberry pis at home, but anything smaller than the recently released 4 is just not worth it IMO (though I've seen several people run clusters of 3B+s).

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Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019) by byteshock on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:03PM (#22038027)

You can’t really compare you deploying kubernetes to a bunch of raspberry pis to people normally deploying them to cloud hosting services or using managed services.....

Totally different use case

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Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019) by Legogris on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:51PM (#22041057)

I am not. GP doesn’t mention running managed. When talking about “basically free” and for side-projects I don’t really get your point. Minimum cost for a one-node n1-standard-1 cluster is a subsidized ~25 USD per month on GKE (assuming not using preembtibles). After 1 year you’re above the price of comparable hardware (there are pretty decent 300 $ laptops these days).

I’m a happy customer of GKE but it’s not for everyone and everything. Like you say, different use-cases.

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