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Yup, we just moved large chunks of our SaaS platform from the cloud to dedicated servers with Kubernetes serving as an internal cloud. Ended up reducing our cos
by yashkadakia 3y ago
Yup, we just moved large chunks of our SaaS platform from the cloud to dedicated servers with Kubernetes serving as an internal cloud. Ended up reducing our cost to 30% (70% saved!).
We realized that instead of using scaling for peaks, by having additional dedicated servers available full time - it still worked out significantly cheaper. We also moved a lot of our internal processing to run in specific windows of time where the expected load was low to maximize server utilization in those periods.
- ssss11 3y agoSorry what’s an “internal cloud”? Please tell me we haven’t renamed on-prem.
- simonjgreen 3y agoThe term "private cloud" has existed for easily 15 years, pretty much straight after Google coined the term "cloud computing". The current deifnition of "on-prem" actually changed after cloud computing reached mass adoption. Prior to then, on-prem referred to "in your office" vs. "in a datacenter". These days "on-prem" means "not in public cloud".
- Marazan 3y agoIt will mean compute resources that can be transparently shared amongst different things (which is where the K8s comes in) as opposed to boxes dedicated to a single service.
- _flux 3y agoYes, it's basically the same as "on prem", but instead just a bunch of individual (virtual) servers they are managed by a system that provides typical cloud APIs, such as OpenStack.
- monkeywork 3y agoon-prem services but running with the tooling that is typically used for cloud computing rather than bare-metal on-prem of old.