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I've been so excited for experimenting with EKS ever since the announcement but this offering looks very underwhelming. With kops [0] I can spin up a productio
by jpetrucc 8y ago
I've been so excited for experimenting with EKS ever since the announcement but this offering looks very underwhelming.
With kops [0] I can spin up a production cluster on AWS quickly and have just as much functionality (if not more control) without paying Amazon ~$150/mo for the pleasure (per cluster!). It doesn't really seem to be "managed" either.
Maybe now's the time to really start to look at GCP/GKE. I've used them for some GitLab CI stuff in the past but never invested too much time into really seeing how the transition from AWS to GCP is.
[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops
- iddqd 8y agoWhen setting up production clusters via kops on AWS I opt for c4.large instances for the master, which with a HA quorum costs $250/month. If you use the default master instance type in kops, m3.medium, it's around $174/month. I fail to see the problem with AWS charging $150/month for a fully managed alternative.