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NVMe will allow your storage to be super fast, but it doesn't add any more compute resources. So unless your K8s cluster was all about IO, i'd say no...

• bashinator 5y ago
  I daydream about running our entire company k8s infra on a single 1U with 256 Epyc threads, a few terabytes of memory, and a bunch more of tiered storage. IMO this kind of miniaturization is amazing for container orchestration. Add a couple more, overprovision by 50%, let k8s handle the high availability, and you’ve got a datacenter in a small box.
  • gravypod 5y ago
    I have nightmares of someone convincing my company to do something like that and then a having a hardware, network, or power failure.
    • jnwatson 5y ago
      Buy 2.
      • cestith 5y ago
        4. 2 each for 2 data centers.
        • gravypod 5y ago
          And, at that point, you'll probably want an easy way to orchestrate work across your multiple nodes.
          • cestith 5y ago
            Probably so.
    • bashinator 5y ago
      Oh for sure. I'm happy to keep it as a daydream. Cloud providers are better at high-availability than I am.
  • SkipperCat 5y ago
    We run single node K8s. I do it for some non-prod apps. K8s deployments are a lot more easier to organize than a bunch of docker compose deployments and its also a great way to learn K8s internals, etc.