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IMXP, autopilot is multiple times the price of a VM on a non-GCP platform.
by mplewis 3y ago
IMXP, autopilot is multiple times the price of a VM on a non-GCP platform.
- danpalmer 3y agoHow come? I see Autopilot is $0.10 per cluster hour, or ~$75 a month, add the standard GKE cluster management overhead of $150, that's $225 a month for a cluster which rounds to zero given any reasonable load. Then in my experience GCP VMs have always been price competitive with basically any other cloud provider. The issue we had was getting the bin-packing right on our cluster, and we often ended up with 20% unallocated capacity per VM. Autopilot basically solves that (and probably pays for itself with only a few VMs) as you only pay for the K8s defined resources, and therefore only have 1 level of cost optimisation at the pod level, rather than 2 at the pod and VM level.