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It's nice but, for the service, per-node pricing is frustrating. Maybe our workload is unusual, but I'm running something at a reasonably small scale, with abou

It's nice but, for the service, per-node pricing is frustrating. Maybe our workload is unusual, but I'm running something at a reasonably small scale, with about 30 nodes. The cluster autoscaler has been so good that we've optimised for more, smaller nodes, on spot instance pricing. At $79/node, that's about 4x the cost of the actual instance itself... And yet the actual cost of the services provided, don't _really_ seem to scale with number of nodes? But then, I can't think of another metric to tie it to easily

kenm47 6y ago
the open source tool Polaris (what's quoted this article) is completely free to use. There is a commercial product (Fairwinds Insights) that includes Polaris among many other tools that costs 79$/node... (disclaimer, I work at fairwinds)
bbrennan 6y ago
Agreed per-node pricing is not ideal, but it appears to be an industry standard - most k8s tooling charges per node. Since different clusters have different node profiles (in terms of size, scaling, etc), we offer discounts on per-node pricing when customers have a large number of nodes.