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It also enables you to achieve app density. Many of the companies I've been working with lately have large batch processes on nightly / weekly / monthly basis.
by tstrimple 6y ago
It also enables you to achieve app density. Many of the companies I've been working with lately have large batch processes on nightly / weekly / monthly basis. For some reason, each job previously was setup on on-prem hardware dedicated per workload. Using Kubernetes and scheduling jobs to manage capacity has enabled us to reduce the number of on-prem servers substantially as part of the migration plan for the cloud.
- halbritt 6y agoPrecisely. In my experience hosting services in VMs on-prem I was able to achieve roughly 30% efficiency across 3k instances and hundreds of nodes. In my experience hosting microservices on k8s, I was able to achieve 80% efficiency across hundreds of nodes. Both were the result of a great deal of work to optimize efficiency. In this case, I use the word "efficiency" to refer to a blend of CPU and memory utilization.