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Just as a point of reference, for me to spin up a 3 node cluster in terraform with GKE it takes 10+ minutes.
by SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
Just as a point of reference, for me to spin up a 3 node cluster in terraform with GKE it takes 10+ minutes.
- SkyLinx 4y agoYep. I tested creating a cluster with 5 nodes and it took almost 20 minutes for me with GKE (just from the console, not Terraform).
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoWeird question: you use Terraform to manage the cluster nodes themselves, and then you use k8s YAML (or Helm charts or something else) to manage the k8s resources, right? You don't manage the k8s resources from Terraform, do you?
- SkyLinx 4y agoCorrect. I can't remember the details because I haven't checked this stuff recently but that's the gist of it
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoCorrect. I like to think of it as “infrastructure” (things managed by Terraform that define the structure) vs “deployments” (actual apps deployed on that infrastructure). The line gets blurry because you can actually deploy many types of apps with Terraform too if you want, but typically you would use Helm or similar solution for that.