Polaris 1.0: Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads

Re:Polaris 1.0: Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads by stickydink on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:17PM (#23393470)

It's nice but, for the service, per-node pricing is frustrating. Maybe our workload is unusual, but I'm running something at a reasonably small scale, with about 30 nodes.

The cluster autoscaler has been so good that we've optimised for more, smaller nodes, on spot instance pricing. At $79/node, that's about 4x the cost of the actual instance itself...

And yet the actual cost of the services provided, don't _really_ seem to scale with number of nodes? But then, I can't think of another metric to tie it to easily

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Re:Polaris 1.0: Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads by kenm47 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:36PM (#23393675)

the open source tool Polaris (what's quoted this article) is completely free to use. There is a commercial product (Fairwinds Insights) that includes Polaris among many other tools that costs 79$/node...

(disclaimer, I work at fairwinds)

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Re:Polaris 1.0: Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads by bbrennan on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:51AM (#23403328)

Agreed per-node pricing is not ideal, but it appears to be an industry standard - most k8s tooling charges per node.

Since different clusters have different node profiles (in terms of size, scaling, etc), we offer discounts on per-node pricing when customers have a large number of nodes.

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