Fully agree with his comments as someone who's used GKE, AKS, EKS and Hetzner for kubernetes clusters.
GCP's UX is so nice... e.g. compare the equivalent as command line option in the UI vs the automation script that Azure gives you.
GCP's UX is so nice... e.g. compare the equivalent as command line option in the UI vs the automation script that Azure gives you.
AWS UI was usable. Mostly stuck to automation or the CLI though. Azure was... I didn't use it a lot, but I thought it was terrible.
With GCP, I find the CLI to be more intuitive, but even still, I find myself using the UI more often than not, it's that good.
I just wish the GCP console people would talk to the Gsuite admin people.
1. Web UI
2. Powershell
3. CLI
4. REST API
How does Hetzner compare here? In terms of both, general experience and costs.
We use Hetzner for this purpose. It's hard to compare it with the other providers since with Hetzner you are renting unmanaged servers, not turning up cloud instances.
But it is absolutely the best value you can get. Our bill would be at least 10x higher if we were using Google/Amazon/Microsoft.
Considering we spent a lot on servers as is, that makes it well worth it for us. It might not be if your product is very computationally light.
Hetzner Cloud is already a thing[1] and is a direct alternative to Amazon EC2, if you choose dedicated vCUP.
What exactly would that person be handling? We probably spend no more than a couple hours per week handling everything involved. That's the point of something like Kubernetes in the first place.
>Will your workload on Google cost more than $50k?
Our sever bill with GKE would far exceed $50k/yr (it would exceed $50k/mo!)
As a result, Hetzner is a no-brainer for us. As mentioned before, that might be different for you if you are doing something that is computationally light.
Funnily I spend more time administrating GKE than I do with applications on VPS.