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I haven’t done cost calculations yet, but this might actually make me want to explore to EKS pricing. I do love the experience of GKE.
It's the same as the new pricing that EKS has at $0.10/hour. Guess that rules out my hopes of EKS not charging for the management plane any time in the near future. :'(
This is really disappointing. GKE was a staple amongst Kubernetes adoption, not only for the feature-set but also that there were no overhead costs. I hope GCP re-thinks this.
Ah, the sound of former Oracle executives counting their GCP bonuses.
Don't marry yourself to a provider, stay portable, it's just good risk management. Pricing changes? Spin up a cluster elsewhere, migrate data, migrate traffic, profit. The terms of the agreement can change at any time.
Wow, this is a huge bummer. A lot of our infrastructure assumptions have been based around having several small GKE clusters.
> Last modified: November 27, 2018 | Previous Versions > As of November 28, 2017, Google Kubernetes Engine no longer charges a flat fee per hour per cluster for cluster management, regardless of cluster size, as provided at https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing . Accordingly, Google no longer offers a financially-backed service level agreement for the Google Kubernetes Engine service. The service availab…
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Thank you for the feedback. > Google's inability to actually commit to long term support... This is _exactly_ what Google is doing in this case. We are providing an SLA - a legal agreement of availability and support. These changes introduce a guaranteed availability of the management control plane.
Sure, in this case I can see that. I was referring to those four points with respect to Google services in general. I'm sure I don't need to dig up a list of features and services that have been merged, shuttered, price hiked or moved into a different product suite over the years. Admittedly a lot of the issues are with the GSuite side of things, but it's sad to see this coming to GCP as well. On a hopefully more con…
Note: Azure does not charge a master/cluster management fee (bias disclosure I work for Microsoft)
Replies on another thread by alleged Google employees appear to indicate they are learning on the fly that doing support matters and costs money.
There are a lot of comments from people wanting free things. You may get those things for a while but it won't last. Free only works for so long in anything no matter how hard that is for some people to figure out across all aspects of life.
Oh, and per their docs, three-control-planes decision is not reversible - I cannot in fact shut two of those down without shutting down my production cluster and starting a new one. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/typ...
Awful. Just so awful.
Edit: To answer some questions below - we have a single-tenant model where we run an instance of our async discussion tool (https://aether.app) per customer for better isolation, that’s why we had bought into Kubernetes / GCP. Since we have our own hypervisor inside the clusters, it makes me wonder whether we can just deploy multiple hypervisors into the same cluster, or remove the Kubernetes dependency and run this on a Docker runtime in a more classical environment.
The guarantees for uptime with 99.5% for regional and 99.5% for zonal clusters seem pretty good. Is this above the average in terms of cloud providers?
For a business I prefer a company that starts with higher prices and then only lowers them to one that may increase them at any time.