It's not up to date with Kubernetes 1.0.0 but I'll update the images as soon as the final version 1 is tagged.
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Apparently, the fact that I've been curious enough to experiment with other Google developer products in the past means I'm not part of the target audience.
Can you submit a support request and we'll see what we can do?
Also, spinning up a cluster should be incredibly cheap if you just want to mess around for a little bit - we do billing by the minute :)
Full disclosure: I work on Google on Kubernetes
I guess I can understand the cost-cutting mentality that drives Google, AWS, etc. to limit these kinds of offers to "new customers" only. Just remember to consider what kind of incentives you're creating. By effectively punishing developers for being early adopters/experimenters, you're making them wary of signing up early for whatever new and interesting stuff you announce in the future.
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1. Current type for new customers. Here's $500. Do whatever you want
2. For old customers who haven't ever used a free trial, give credit without limits (same as new customers)
3. For old customers who have used a free trial give credit only for services they haven't used
We do appreciate the feedback and are looking hard at the right next way to solve this. If it wasn't for bitcoin miners and/or bot nets, this would all be a lot easier :(
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"Unfortunately, the system is developed by design to only apply the free trial credit to new email address creating a new billing account and we can't apply it for already existing emails." Bummer.
I actually find this a common issue with a presumed sales pipeline I encounter.
They think:
1. He finds us. 2. He's interested and signs up for a trial 3. We hopefully convert before the trial is over
What actually tends to happen
1. I find something that looks interesting 2. I sign up 3. Real work intervenes 4. Several months later I have some time to look again but my trial has expired.
To be fair most companies respond to a quick email but they could be proactive and do the following:
1. If no activity is detected after the first day pause the trial 2. Some time later send an email saying "We've paused your trial. Please choose either: 1. to reactivate it, 2. be reminded in another x weeks or 3. never hear from us again.
GitHub and Reddit have conditioned us to think that any halfway decent discussion system must use it :-P
Current ideas are either a single regional cluster or via federation of multiple zonal clusters.
See eg https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/maste... for an proposal on the latter.
This is only one point of data for you, of course.
"Today, each Kubernetes cluster is a relatively self-contained unit, which typically runs in a single "on-premise" data centre or single availability zone of a cloud provider (Google's GCE, Amazon's AWS, etc)."
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/relea...