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> Kubernetes is really really cheap In terms of infra costs, I can believe it. But what about engineer resources to setup and maintain your infra in k8s cluste
by davedx 7y ago
> Kubernetes is really really cheap
In terms of infra costs, I can believe it. But what about engineer resources to setup and maintain your infra in k8s clusters?
Where I work, we have a full time DevOps team that's almost the same size as the main product teams. That's really not cheap.
- hello_moto 7y agoSeems like companies that began to adopt k8s come with less experience so the task looks humongous hence the need to hire "more people".
- aeyes 7y agoWeird, we are 3 working on infra/CI/tooling supporting some 80+ engineers working on the product which didn't write a single line of config for Docker, CICD, Infra automation, K8s. In fact, it was done by one person until the product teams reached some 40 engineers. We aren't 10x guys either. What's different though is that we don't believe in the microservice hypetrain so I don't have 200 codebases to watch after.
- Legogris 7y agoDo you run on managed k8s from a cloud provider or do you maintain you own cluster(s)? The former that sounds reasonable, the latter sounds near implausible.
- bloopernova 7y agoFor whatever accounting/asset/tax reason, corporations seem happy to spend vast sums on monthly costs such as AWS, yet loathe purchasing physical computers to do the same job.