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I've come at this from a slightly different angle. I've seen many clients running k8s on expensive cloud instances, but to me that is solving the same problems twice. Both k8s and cloud instances solve a highly related and overlapping set of problems.

Instead you can take k8s, deploy it to bare metal, and have a much much more power for a much lower cost. Of course this requires some technical knowledge, but the benefits are significant (lower costs, stable costs, no vendor lock-in, all the postgres extensions you want, response times halved, etc).

k8s smoothes over the vagaries of bare-metal very nicely.

If you'll excuse a quick plug for my work: We [1] offer a middle ground for this, whereby we do and manage all this for you. We take over all DevOps and infrastructure responsibility while also cutting spend by around 50%. (cloud hardware really is that expensive in comparison).

[1]: https://lithus.eu

>Instead you can take k8s, deploy it to bare metal, and have a much much more power for a much lower cost. Of course this requires some technical knowledge, but the benefits are significant (lower costs, stable costs, no vendor lock-in, all the postgres extensions you want, response times halved, etc).

>all the postgres extensions you want

You can run Postgres in any managed K8s environment (say AWS EKS) just fine and enable any extensions you want as well. Unless you're conflating managed Postgres solutions like RDS, which would imply that the only way to run databases is by using a managed service of your cloud of choice, which obviously isn't true.

> You can run Postgres in any managed K8s environment (say AWS EKS) just fine and enable any extensions you want as well.

You absolutely can do this, and we do ineed run Postgres in-cluster.

We generally see that people prefer a managed solution when it comes to operating their databases. Which means that when it comes to their (eg) AWS EKS clusters, they often use RDS rather than running the DB in-cluster.

Our service is also a managed service, and that comes with in-cluster databases. So clients still get a managed service, but without the limitations of (eg) RDS.

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