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> It doesn't help when a service is only for few million users with few hundred or thousand containers. Well my company switched from VMs to k8s (few hundred c

• oblio 7y ago
  Do you manage Kubernetes, personally? Did you manage the VMs?
  • tutfbhuf 7y ago
    Yes, i'm a DevOps engineer. I have to say, we use the Google Cloud and many Google Services, this makes live so much easier. Before that we managed everything ourselves on bare metal with debian VMs.
    • oblio 7y ago
      Not exactly my point. Are you comparing managing bare metal VMs with using a managed Kubernetes cluster? That's hardly a fair comparison.
• zsoltk 7y ago
  My company switched from VMs to a managed k8s cluster (gcloud). It made everything harder, the application became about 5x slower and instead of a $300 monthly bill we paid for the VMs now we pay $1300. So in summary: * we still have same amount of developers * we still need same amount of sysadmins * we introduced more complexity * the application became slower * the whole thing became much more expensive (managed k8s price, education, consulting, etc.) * but! we have the same amount of income every month. Surprisingly our users don't pay more for the same service because we run our stuff on k8s
• dragonsh 7y ago
  Cannot comment on it unless see it in details that adding additional moving components of k8s helped.