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Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by AYBABTME » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

kalmi10 wrote: post #8

Do I understand correctly that they provide the manager nodes for free?

yup

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by yebyen » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

kalmi10 wrote: post #8

Do I understand correctly that they provide the manager nodes for free?

Yes, this is the pricing model for everyone except EKS/AWS as I understand it. Manager nodes are bundled with whatever you spend on your worker nodes.

Google has gone so far with GKE as to offer HA masters distributed across availability zones at no extra cost. (On the day that Amazon announced EKS general availability, if I remember correctly, which is priced at $250/mo base cost, before you even get around to spend anything on worker nodes.)

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

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Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by tyingq » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:51 PM UTC

So now that's managed K8S, managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage.

Curious what's next. Lambdas maybe?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by gtf21 » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

cremp wrote: post #5

DigitalOcean has always been behind the curve of these things. All of the other big cloud platforms have had this for at least a few months. I haven't actually seen anything 'new' come out of DigitalOcean in years.

Like many others, I'm not sure DO's USP is being at the cutting edge. I like them because I get a decent amount of control, I have found their support to be quite responsive, and their products have always been very stable for me.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

jgh wrote: post #4

i wish they would launch gpu instances :(

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Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by nine_k » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #14

So now that's managed K8S, managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage. Curious what's next. Lambdas maybe?

Managed queues? Lambdas?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by thinkshiv » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

kalmi10 wrote: post #8

Do I understand correctly that they provide the manager nodes for free?

hi, yes no charges for the managed / master nodes. This is Shiv from DO (I head Products there).

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by thinkshiv » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:01 PM UTC

jgh wrote: post #4

i wish they would launch gpu instances :(

We are working on this but don't have a date to share today. I know many of our customers want it and we may be able to offer it in later 2019.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by thinkshiv » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #14

So now that's managed K8S, managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage. Curious what's next. Lambdas maybe?

We have a big roadmap for 2019. Queues are interesting and so are functions in general. Nothing to share today but those are items we are assessing for future roadmaps :)