> > You won't be paying for those masters anymore with the managed offering, from any of the cloud vendors I've heard of announcing a managed offering.
> Interesting, I didn't know about that. Not sure if I prefer this though. Might be another "surface" for the cloud providers to lock you in.
If you want a serious HA-FT kubernetes cluster that is spread across and resilient against failures in a single AZ, and you don't have something like Stackpoint or a managed K8S offering to configure it for you, there is a pretty serious amount of work (and decent number of computers required) in order for you to get your cluster there.
That being said, I don't know how many "hosted, managed" K8S offerings there really are in GA right now to compare.
I'm counting GKE on GCP, AKS on Azure, IBM's new managed k8s offering, AWS/EKS (which is still in preview) and Digital Ocean's offering announced yesterday (which is still pre-beta.) As far as I know, all of those offerings will give you as many masters as you need to make a resilient cluster for free, and you only pay for the workers.
(Except for the offerings that are in preview mode, then I guess you just don't pay for any of it for now...)
> Platform - Certified Kubernetes - Hosted (21)
I guess there are also quite a few I haven't looked at yet. Those are just the platforms with hosted offerings.
> Interesting, I didn't know about that. Not sure if I prefer this though. Might be another "surface" for the cloud providers to lock you in.
If you want a serious HA-FT kubernetes cluster that is spread across and resilient against failures in a single AZ, and you don't have something like Stackpoint or a managed K8S offering to configure it for you, there is a pretty serious amount of work (and decent number of computers required) in order for you to get your cluster there.
That being said, I don't know how many "hosted, managed" K8S offerings there really are in GA right now to compare.
I'm counting GKE on GCP, AKS on Azure, IBM's new managed k8s offering, AWS/EKS (which is still in preview) and Digital Ocean's offering announced yesterday (which is still pre-beta.) As far as I know, all of those offerings will give you as many masters as you need to make a resilient cluster for free, and you only pay for the workers.
(Except for the offerings that are in preview mode, then I guess you just don't pay for any of it for now...)
> Platform - Certified Kubernetes - Hosted (21)
I guess there are also quite a few I haven't looked at yet. Those are just the platforms with hosted offerings.
https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/
I personally used kubeadm for my toy-sized single node cluster, and it's great, but I'm also still on 1.5!