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It looks like it isn't surprisingly affordable on Amazon. If I'm reading this right, EKS is 20c an hour per cluster, or about $150/month, and that's before EC2

by 07d046 8y ago

It looks like it isn't surprisingly affordable on Amazon. If I'm reading this right, EKS is 20c an hour per cluster, or about $150/month, and that's before EC2 costs for the actual machines in the cluster. https://aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing/

joseph 8y ago
EKS is indeed expensive. I started creating https://github.com/cloudboss/keights https://github.com/cloudboss/keights for automating Kubernetes stacks before EKS was a thing, but I still prefer it over EKS. You can use it to set up a cluster using plain CloudFormation, or with an Ansible role which wraps the CloudFormation stack.
chrissnell 8y ago
You don't need EKS. Just use kops to build your cluster on plain EC2 instances.
throwaway2016a 8y ago
You can run Kubernetes on AWS without EKS and if you use t2.micro instances it would be around $28 per month if you use the load balancing technique here (where it is DNS based on an actual LB). $21 a month if you account for the free tier (and this article uses Google's free tier). If you further use spot instances (the equivalent here to "preemptible") you can save a ton more. The real savings (or $7 per month) is that on GCE you won't need to run your control server. GCE does that for you for free. Edit: now another issue here is (and I have no idea if this is true for GCE like it is AWS). t2 instances will throttle you if you use too much CPU which can be an issue when running a lot of containers.
- tannhaeuser 8y ago
  Sure but the context is personal projects or portfolio/small business sites. A VPS on a discount provider such as Hetzner or OVH costs around 3-4 USD/EUR per month. A redundant VPS (two VPS and Ceph) costs 10 EUR on OVH. Not to speak about the complexity of setting up and running k8s. You'll be needing a second k8s development/testing environment for staging as well. So, no, I don't think k8s makes sense economically.

by 07d046 8y ago

joseph 8y ago

EKS is indeed expensive. I started creating https://github.com/cloudboss/keights https://github.com/cloudboss/keights for automating Kubernetes stacks before EKS was a thing, but I still prefer it over EKS. You can use it to set up a cluster using plain CloudFormation, or with an Ansible role which wraps the CloudFormation stack.

chrissnell 8y ago

You don't need EKS. Just use kops to build your cluster on plain EC2 instances.

throwaway2016a 8y ago

You can run Kubernetes on AWS without EKS and if you use t2.micro instances it would be around $28 per month if you use the load balancing technique here (where it is DNS based on an actual LB). $21 a month if you account for the free tier (and this article uses Google's free tier). If you further use spot instances (the equivalent here to "preemptible") you can save a ton more. The real savings (or $7 per month) is that on GCE you won't need to run your control server. GCE does that for you for free. Edit: now another issue here is (and I have no idea if this is true for GCE like it is AWS). t2 instances will throttle you if you use too much CPU which can be an issue when running a lot of containers.

tannhaeuser 8y ago
Sure but the context is personal projects or portfolio/small business sites. A VPS on a discount provider such as Hetzner or OVH costs around 3-4 USD/EUR per month. A redundant VPS (two VPS and Ceph) costs 10 EUR on OVH. Not to speak about the complexity of setting up and running k8s. You'll be needing a second k8s development/testing environment for staging as well. So, no, I don't think k8s makes sense economically.