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With Kubernetes now being mature and fairly easy to install, you can have essentially your own AWS for peanuts using OVH. I absolutely see no reason why paying
by merinowool 9y ago
With Kubernetes now being mature and fairly easy to install, you can have essentially your own AWS for peanuts using OVH.
I absolutely see no reason why paying such a premium to use "conventional" cloud providers when you can have your own portable infrastructure nowadays.
- zenlikethat 9y agoTrying to duplicate things like SQS, RDS, and Lambda on Kubernetes could easily crush you on operator costs.
- merinowool 9y agoIt still has a learning curve, but it isn't too bad. You have Rook, OpenFAAS etc. and once you write your own recipes it is easy to spin up your own databases, queues etc.
- freeone3000 9y agoYes, once you have an experienced systems administrator you'd be amazed at what you save for that $200k salary... AWS hits a "pay what you use" price point for services that previously required the human equivalent of a large capital outlay.
- paxys 9y agoKubernetes only does service orchestration, which is a very small part of what AWS offers overall. You still have to manage servers/NAS/networking hardware, ISP contracts, CDN, edge caches, geo-distribution and more.
- merinowool 9y agoI think there is a niche where it is too expensive to use AWS and it is impossible to do with traditional hosting. You can do well with Flannel, Rook and edge servers as nginx reverse proxies with caching. You need to write scripts once (or use ready made recipes) and management isn't too hard - definitely doable for one man project if you set your expectations right.