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Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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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 :)

Is application hosting (heroku, app engine, elb) on the roadmap?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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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).

Can you give some insight on whether the master nodes are tiered and if so, how they are tiered. My DO master node doesn't respond to commands as quickly as GKE's but I don't know if that's because it's dependent on the tier I chose for the nodes in the node pool.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, but we aren't Amazon =] - DigitalOcean cofounder

But you started to compete with your customers. Good luck. -DigitalOcean ex-customer

This is implying that you or others were creating managed products using Droplets? How is it DigitalOcean's fault if they want to create more vertically integrated products using their own technology?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Serious question: Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup? The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or quickly route around a system failure in one of the providers.

Some newer candidates besides Terraform are Portable Service Definitions and Crossplane.

https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...

https://crossplane.io

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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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?

Functions, Kafka, redis, task queue, elasticsearch, auth, docker register, cloud build.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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post #34

Serious question: Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup? The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or quickly route around a system failure in one of the providers.

Yes, kubernetes

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, but we aren't Amazon =] - DigitalOcean cofounder

But you started to compete with your customers. Good luck. -DigitalOcean ex-customer

Did you try to launch your own cloud offering on someone else's cloud? Did you expect the other cloud would never expand their offering?

I doubt they ever tried to compete with you, and probably didn't even know you were doing something similar. You were just able to come to market before they felt they were ready with a similar product.

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