Highly available Kubernetes with batteries for small business

Post by manquer » Mon, May 25, 2020, 8:07 PM UTC

tschellenbach wrote: post #14

Small business + Kubernetes seems like a horrible combo. Spin up a $5 instance on DO and move on.

Post by randtrain34 » Mon, May 25, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

Post by 0ld » Mon, May 25, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

Post by cyberpunk » Mon, May 25, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

solotronics wrote: post #11

CSDude wrote: post #5

It feels like a huge hassle for a small business. Use a cloud, it's not that expensive. If, not even using a cloud is an option, you can still mount NFS, use a bridged network and use DHCP from that router, and run your software in systemd/upstart or simple Docker containers. I don't like to sound like a grumpy old man that yells at new tech, I'm all good for experimentation home setups involving these, but every com…

For someone who is interested and capable the costs are an order of magnitude lower for self hosting. Your right for the most part small business would be better off using an existing cloud, they dont have the skillset to properly design and manage something like this themselves.

Post by maxdo » Mon, May 25, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

alephu5 wrote: post #13

I've been using docker swarm on Hetzner for my fledgling business and am quite happy with it. The main feature I use is rolling upgrades that make it very easy to deploy changes. It's simple, and has all the features I need for the stage I'm at. Once I have a more demanding infrastructure I'll probably switch over to a managed kubernetes, but those platforms have a significantly higher unit cost.