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Yeah, thanks for sharing your experiences on that.

Unfortunately our egress costs would likely be significant.

I am honestly anxious to get my employer started on the path to k8s, but until the tooling reduces the hours required to maintain it successfully, Swarm seems like the superior solution if you are locked in on a non-GKE/Azure Container Service provider.

I have heard good things about Kops helping setup/enable production-stable orchestration, but they are not ready yet for Digital Ocean either, although I think it is on the list™.

GKE, from the research I have done, and the small cluster I built for a side project, smooths out many of the particularly challenging aspects of a k8s implementation. I mean it is advertised as a managed service, I do not think that is particularly comparable to setting up a raw k8s cluster or Docker Swarm cluster yourself. Would you feel that is an accurate assessment?

My company is currently fairly locked into another DO for misc. reasons, and as a result would be deploying to DO, where you do not have the benefit of all of the automated tooling/management provided by GKE.

I think several others have commented on this, but the learning curve of Swarm seems insignificant to the setup and implementation of a k8s cluster.

I work with a team of four total developers and realistically two of us handle the vast majority of "operations." As a result, what was important for us in orchestration was ease of setup, speed of initial implementation, and the lowest immediate and ongoing difficulty associated with whichever orchestration tooling we chose.