GKE On-Prem Alpha

Post by alxbog » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:54 AM UTC

ninkendo wrote: post #75

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I feel like I have to say this, even if people get it already. Walk before you run. Bare metal is a LOT harder to manage because, well, hardware fails. We hear the demand, for sure, but vSphere represents walking (and has a lot of customers, too :)

Sure, I get why the decision was made. But, I don't buy the hardware failure argument, because the same is true of running a vsphere installation in the first place. vsphere migrates VMs to other machines when the hardware fails, but, analogously, the kube scheduler moves pods to other machines when they fail as well. You have to worry about disk failures in both cases. You have to worry about keeping your vsphere's…

Post by d0rmin » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 11:51 AM UTC

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What is the value prop then, for someone who already runs open source Kubernetes on-prem? Why should he pay extra for GKE on-prem?

Excellent question. GKE On-Prem is a Google provided, validated and supported distribution of Kubernetes and extensions that offer a GKE-like experience in your on-premise datacenter. It makes it easy to install and upgrade Kubernetes and provides access to GCP services such as monitoring, logging, metrics, security and auditing for your on-premise installation. It is the foundational component of the Cloud Services…

Post by alxbog » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:41 AM UTC

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wmf wrote: post #2

Hey GKE team, can you give any details about how this works? What does it assume/require from the underlying infrastructure?

We're going to give a breakout session that goes into more depth on Wednesday @ 4:35pm. IO244. Some quick details: It's a bit of a split between what GKE runs and what the customer runs. Alpha runs on vSphere 6.5 and we're packing up a Google-hardened OS in much the same way we package GKE for GCP. A lot of the integrations for things like networking and storage will be coming from partners. We'll also have remote mg…

Post by sofaofthedamned » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 4:30 PM UTC

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sofaofthedamned wrote: post #23

This is awesome! One of my problems with showing clients the ability of GKE is having to pay a lot of money to demonstrate. How complete is this? Can I do the usual ingress/LB annotations for GKE and apply them to an on-prem instance?

Since this runs on vSphere presumably it will cost far far more than public GKE.

Post by rushins » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 2:44 PM UTC

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There are definitely enterprises looking to move away from virtualization. We have that in mind. We are exploring additional options, such as bare metal support, based on customer demand. Send me an email (karangoel [at] google) if you'd be interested in talking more about bare metal.

+1 for Bare Metal support.