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0 pointspacala8y ago0 comments

> How do I install GKE on my servers? ;)

Great question! All major Cloud providers offer managed Kubernetes services:

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-service

https://aws.amazon.com/eks

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/container-service

The choice is Cloud + Kubernetes vs. roll everything on your own hardware.

Running your own hardware is a major IT effort. Kubernetes is just a part of that effort. Then you have take care about planning, provisioning, logging, monitoring, alerting, auditing, networking, storage, oncall.

You either run Cloud + Kubernetes and get rolling in 15 minutes, or you hire IT headcount.

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kuschku8y ago· 3 in thread

> You either run Cloud + Kubernetes and get rolling in 15 minutes, or you hire IT headcount.

You can always rent dedicated hardware – much cheaper than renting similar amounts of virtual servers, and the same administration and operations costs. It’s often even significantly cheaper than what GCE offers – but of course, setting up Kubernetes is more complicated.

pacalaOP8y ago

Exactly. Hardware rental is one way to tackle provisioning. You're still left with all the other tasks required to bootstrap your own datacenter. As you build up the roll-your-own solution, you end up in the same place: hire IT headcount.

If you are a small startup looking to validate market fit, your best bet is Cloud + Kubernetes. If you are an established business with millions of daily customers and serious IT headcount budget, you may look into roll-your-own. The best orchestrator at that scale is, again, Kubernetes.

kuschku8y ago

> Exactly. Hardware rental is one way to tackle provisioning. You're still left with all the other tasks required to bootstrap your own datacenter. As you build up the roll-your-own solution, you end up in the same place: hire IT headcount.

For a startup, building a datacenter isn’t required in the beginning.

I meant, literally renting existing hardware, in an existing datacenter. This is just a single step from renting VMs at AWS or GCE, but already improves costs significantly.

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sz4kerto8y ago

That's not true in a whole lot of industries. Many (!) small shops simply can't choose the cloud because of various reasons (regulations, for example).

bboreham8y ago

EKS isn't generally available

bonesss8y ago

> Running your own hardware is a major IT effort. Kubernetes is just a part of that effort.

For Enterprise nerds VMWare has also just launched a Kubernetes service, so the #1 Enterprise VM supplier just added k8s on-prem for everyone who is in a hybrid cloud situation.

ownagefool8y ago

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...

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