> they'd wasted $1 million on a "high availability" devops setup that was overbuilt for what they needed not sure, but with 1$ million on budget, you can run a

> they'd wasted $1 million on a "high availability" devops setup that was overbuilt for what they needed not sure, but with 1$ million on budget, you can run a pretty pretty big gke cluster. btw. we run on e2-standard-2 and pay ~500 per month (would be a little bit more without commited usage). 6 nodes + 2 managed cloud sql databases+several load balancers. really no idea how one can pay a million even in a year. that would not be a small startup... you can probably have like 9x e2-standard-32 (32vcpu+128gb) + postgres ha 16vcpu/256gb mem/500gb ssd for like 10,867.33 per month without traffic (which might be another 5000) so with traffic you would only pay 190407.96 per year?! Edit: even without gke, k3s is way simplier than most "deployment scripts" or whatever. it's always a matter if you want to have ops people or if gke's self managing is enough. Edit2: so many lols at the blog post. I mean who the fuck spends 7000 at a colo for 40.0000 users. my macbook could probably serve that. also "and then script those older Virtual Machines with some mix of Ansible and Terraform (assuming you want to be in the cloud). " is a fucking terrible advice, been there, done that and it soon is a clusterfuck of stuff cobbeled together.