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This change is pretty huge for non-revenue units & small teams at institutions and SMBs. These smaller teams often seem to run two clusters rather than try to s
by Glyptodon 7y ago
This change is pretty huge for non-revenue units & small teams at institutions and SMBs. These smaller teams often seem to run two clusters rather than try to split their production and dev environments within one cluster (I think this is even widely recommended for smaller, less experienced outfits). For many the management fee will probably be a large percentage cost increase for units that are very cost sensitive and require significant re-engineering to avoid for units where engineer hours a scarce resource.
Seems weird, given that GKE is basically the main reason people seem to use Google Cloud. These kinds of users aren't big fish, but I suspect a lot of them are going to run.
- donmcronald 7y agoYeah. Having 1 free cluster will just encourage SMBs and hobbyists to resort to the bad practice of commingling dev and production, wont it? It's the same attitude that GitLab has with a lot of their CI stuff. It's not only huge enterprises that want to try to follow best practices.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoIt's one free cluster per billing account. Have separate billing accounts for dev and prod usage of GCP. Probably a good idea to follow separate accounts on any cloud, for that matter.