Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by youngdynasty on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:42PM (#22485842)

I run a hobby project in multiple zones because low latency is important, and Kubernetes makes it easy to do so.

There's no way I'm going to pay an extra $73/mo -- I already pay for the computing resources, this should be free.

Looks like I'll be moving away from GKE. It's a shame, I _was_ a big advocate.

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by sethvargo on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:54PM (#22485965)

We offer one free zonal cluster, which is specifically designed for your use case :)

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by sofaofthedamned on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:47PM (#22487898)

I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.

You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by youngdynasty on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @01:13PM (#22486161)

I use more than one zone because I run TCP services which need low latency. I'll probably just switch to Digital Ocean.

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