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Can multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms make infrastructure prices comparable?
- znpy 6y agoNo, because bandwidth can be a huge part of the bill and that falls outside of kubernetes operating scope.
- bg24 6y agoIf you meant the management platforms (ex. Rancher) for multi-cloud clusters, it depends. Infrastructure costs are x% (<20%?) of the e2e cost to run a business. As you go to multi cloud, you have to plan for operationalization, enablement, support plans. Then the business apps need to talk to cloud, internet and on-prem resources. Unless planned properly, you stand to run into issues that may take more time to troubleshoot. Infrastructure prices are already comparable. How you use it matters. Someone may be using 10 instances of m5-xlarge at 10% utilization for example. Someone else may have automation in place to scale down the infrastructure and pay 70% less. Someone may decide to use non-optimal sizes of node instances, thereby causing numerous pod evictions and keep growing the cluster size on instance count. Someone else may just use the right type of instances for efficient binpacking. How you use the infrastructure matter.