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Cutting cluster management fees on Google Kubernetes Engine

102 points by moritzplassnig 9y ago

tyingq 9y ago
Pretty quick response to Azure's announcement. I'm impressed a big company can move that fast.
- the_common_man 9y ago
  They probably already knew it was coming.
  - andrewstuart2 9y ago
    "Sure, let's just bump the announcement up a week or two."
- moritzplassnig 9y ago
  Or it was planned to happen ahead of re:Invent anyway. I think it's fair to assume that there's a big chance that AWS is launching a managed k8s product.
  - digaozao 9y ago
    I Hope so. I am thinking of going to gcp for some time especially because of gke.
simonebrunozzi 9y ago
(my background: tech evangelist at AWS for 6 years, then CTO at VMware's public cloud for two, then CTO at startup, now CEO/founder). I am super impressed by Alphabet / Google / GCP in the linux container segment: this announcement is very timely both as a response to Azure's announcement (quick decision making considering how big Google is), and both in relation to re:Invent and to upcoming Kubecon in December. GCP is building an outstanding technical platform. I believe this will pay off big time in a few years. Azure, instead is super well positioned as a true hybrid cloud approach, although people overestimate the importance of "hybrid" and underestimate the complexity of it. I wrote this a year ago on the subject, and I think it's still quite relevant: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac9f352911a2 https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...
- pronoiac 9y ago
  Heads up: The link about Amazon & VMware should be https://www.iguazio.com/vmware-on-aws-a-scorecard-for-winners-and-losers/ https://www.iguazio.com/vmware-on-aws-a-scorecard-for-winner...
  - simonebrunozzi 9y ago
    Do you mean on my medium post? Where exactly?
    - pronoiac 9y ago
      Huh, it's late enough that you probably won't see this, but I don't see an easy way to contact you. The wrong link is in your Medium post: "7) I won’t comment about the recent AWS/VMware partnership... Yaron Haviv, one of the most technologically-savvy CTO I’ve ever met, has an opinion about it."
anubhavmishra 9y ago
I love this statement in the post "So if you were hesitating to create larger clusters worry no more and scale freely!"
brianwawok 9y ago
Hey i dont have to make 3 small clusters to stay under the limit anymore. Makes my life easier :)
aesthethiccs 9y ago
this is great news, but i blew all my credits because i forgot to turn it off. but still great news.

Pretty quick response to Azure's announcement. I'm impressed a big company can move that fast.

the_common_man 9y ago
They probably already knew it was coming.
- andrewstuart2 9y ago
  "Sure, let's just bump the announcement up a week or two."
moritzplassnig 9y ago
Or it was planned to happen ahead of re:Invent anyway. I think it's fair to assume that there's a big chance that AWS is launching a managed k8s product.
- digaozao 9y ago
  I Hope so. I am thinking of going to gcp for some time especially because of gke.

(my background: tech evangelist at AWS for 6 years, then CTO at VMware's public cloud for two, then CTO at startup, now CEO/founder). I am super impressed by Alphabet / Google / GCP in the linux container segment: this announcement is very timely both as a response to Azure's announcement (quick decision making considering how big Google is), and both in relation to re:Invent and to upcoming Kubecon in December. GCP is building an outstanding technical platform. I believe this will pay off big time in a few years. Azure, instead is super well positioned as a true hybrid cloud approach, although people overestimate the importance of "hybrid" and underestimate the complexity of it. I wrote this a year ago on the subject, and I think it's still quite relevant: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac9f352911a2 https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...

pronoiac 9y ago
Heads up: The link about Amazon & VMware should be https://www.iguazio.com/vmware-on-aws-a-scorecard-for-winners-and-losers/ https://www.iguazio.com/vmware-on-aws-a-scorecard-for-winner...
- simonebrunozzi 9y ago
  Do you mean on my medium post? Where exactly?
  - pronoiac 9y ago
    Huh, it's late enough that you probably won't see this, but I don't see an easy way to contact you. The wrong link is in your Medium post: "7) I won’t comment about the recent AWS/VMware partnership... Yaron Haviv, one of the most technologically-savvy CTO I’ve ever met, has an opinion about it."

anubhavmishra 9y ago

I love this statement in the post "So if you were hesitating to create larger clusters worry no more and scale freely!"

brianwawok 9y ago

Hey i dont have to make 3 small clusters to stay under the limit anymore. Makes my life easier :)

aesthethiccs 9y ago

this is great news, but i blew all my credits because i forgot to turn it off. but still great news.