BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

Nice write up. I have been working on an airgapped k8s-based, robotics simulation platform for awhile and this is one of the most accurate and coherent writings I've found on the subject.

I'll definitely be sharing this with my team.

Re: BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

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Post by hmaxdml » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

s0ss wrote: post #4

To me, BYOC will always mean "bring your own computer", which is amusing in this context.

I thought that fell under BYOD (device) :)

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Post by peter_d_sherman » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

This is a great document for understanding all of the terminology/considerations relative to cloud computing buyers -- a must read for cloud computing buyers, salespeople, or really, anyone else in that space...

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Post by collabs » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

hmaxdml wrote: post #7

s0ss wrote: post #4

To me, BYOC will always mean "bring your own computer", which is amusing in this context.

I thought that fell under BYOD (device) :)

In my mind, BYOD is like being able to use my own iPhone or laptop to connect to some corporate network. I think of this "device" as a client and I think of byoc as being able to run some application or constellation of applications on my own device or in a vendor neutral way on some cloud like a podman compose or something similar... Like not dependant on a particular vendor's "native" capabilities

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Post by majormajor » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

tonyhart7 wrote: post #5

s0ss wrote: post #4

To me, BYOC will always mean "bring your own computer", which is amusing in this context.

apparently computer + k8s connected to internet is considered cloud now

"BYOC" deployment plans often require more than just k8s. "S3-compatible object store" is the most common one, IME. Or other sorts of scalable storage systems.

("Why does the vendor not just include that in the k8s they send you?" Usually because it's easier for them to leave everything about physical storage to the env maintainers.)