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So I have been trying to find a way towards this but at the cost of running EKS, which seems the next step to having platform independence and moving to vanilla
by 616c 7y ago
So I have been trying to find a way towards this but at the cost of running EKS, which seems the next step to having platform independence and moving to vanilla k8s I like, how do I argue/justify the cost and effort for professional workloads involved when Lambda is so cheap for lower tier usage (in our case way less than 1,000,000 invocations for our collection of DevOps tooling, we're not like game shops with a million calls a day) and EKS will be high cost for AWS bills and devops engineers and limited dev patience I already experience where people bitch with far less effortful Serverless framework and Lambda stuff? It is super convenient; I love when people whine about it even though they had limited skills to debug over SSH session anyway but they miss old habits, like what is the deal? Haha. Sorry, I won't dive into that tangent.
Personally, I definitely intend to explore this anyway because I want control and better understanding of how such platforms like Lambda could work under the hood and make my own choices where I obviously can't in Lambdaland. But most project managers and tech leads I know, professionally, never believe they'll leave AWS, to the point people don't know how to mock much beyond S3 and DDB local and hard code that stuff anyway.
The OpenFaaS is the right thing but not the cheap thing. With all good open source wrappers, moreso Redis and stuff but equally applicable for similar reasons but a not open offering taken in house, AWS has successfully banked on the most powerful target demographic: the indifferent! Lol
- alexellisuk 7y ago150 USD / mo is not a lot of money for most companies, especially for a production-grade, supported Kubernetes cluster, it might actually be a bit too cheap. If you need that to be cheaper, try something like DigitalOcean Kubernetes from 10 USD / mo, or if AWS is important to your company, then KOPS can provide a self-managed/hosted control-plane. Spotinst.com offer a great service that uses spot instances to squeeze your costs (I think around 30%) So whilst I see why you may think K8s could be expensive vs Lambda, I think you might not have had all the information you needed.