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‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’

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Re: ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’

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> But for developers in big co., acquiring a public cloud account may take months and forms over forms of paperwork, getting roles put into the central corporate directory etc. I help companies re-architect their solutions for the cloud, and I've worked with companies who had a multi-month process for requesting and provisioning new "cloud servers". If it takes you just as long with just as much overhead to deploy a…

Because the services offered after getting onto the public cloud are better than the internal ones, more transparently priced, and cheaper.

There is nothing cheaper about cloud than bare metal if you’re doing a “lift and shift” and you’re not willing to change your processes.

Re: ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’

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In fact, my team does Kubernetes on OpenStack on Kubernetes. :) It's OpenStack on Kubernetes because we deploy the OpenStack components on a baremetal Kubernetes cluster (with actual payloads running in VMware), and it's Kubernetes on OpenStack because we have an addon service that allows customers to spin up Kubernetes on the VMware VMs created by OpenStack. We also dogfood this because the baremetal Kubernetes clus…

So you're running VIO / vmWare integrated OpenStack?

No. We started with our efforts before VIO was a thing. You can see what we're doing at https://github.com/sapcc, though admittedly that org is quite busy and I don't know every part of it myself.
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