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Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

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Re: Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

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After this, I've been exploring other places to host our team's clusters... copied pricing below - EKS: $0.10/hour/cluster - Digital Ocean: Free (only charges for the nodes) - Azure: Free (only charges for the nodes) In the long run we'll probably try and build our stack on vendor-agnostic tools.. - Rancher - https://rancher.com/products/rancher/ - Infra.app - https://infra.app (mentioned a few weeks back on the Kube…

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Re: Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

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Can someone explain to me the cattle vs. pets analogy? I'm not sure I get it.

https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/653/what-is-the-d... This is a pretty good in depth explanation, but at a high level if a your server dies and you are extremely upset about it (similar to if your pet died) you are putting too many eggs in that single basket, with no secondary plan. Conversely if you build your infra in such a way that your server dying is something you see no worse than how a farmer sees o…

I think a pets vs. corn would be a better analogy as it's a high value single instance vs. a commodity farm.

Re: Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

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Or...if it was important enough to you that losing it hurts, then maybe pay attention to your emails and don't let things expire and pay your shit on time. And of course, a sane person would backup anything important.

Ok, lets say I store all my backups at AWS, Google and Azure. My credit card expires and all backups are gone. What's the point of additional backups in this scenario?

Aws, gcp and azure are unlikely to delete your shit the moment your card expires?
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