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The distros are provided by different vendors in the market (Red Hat, Pivotal, Rancher, others). It's a way for them to bundle in additional features while staying compliant with the standard Kubernetes APIs
- EKS: $0.10/hour/cluster
- Digital Ocean: Free (only charges for the nodes)
- Azure: Free (only charges for the nodes)
In the long run we'll probably try and build our stack on vendor-agnostic tools..
- Rancher - https://rancher.com/products/rancher/
- Infra.app - https://infra.app (mentioned a few weeks back on the Kubernetes podcast)
- Prometheus https://prometheus.io/ - metrics
The cloud providers all include their own tooling (logging, monitoring) built-in but I'm worried this will only lock us on to further price increases.. has anyone found a good vendor-neutral logging system? We don't really want to use ELK stack right now since it's really heavy and costly to run...
"On June 6, 2020, your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters will start accruing a management fee, with an exemption for all Anthos GKE clusters and one free zonal cluster.
Starting June 6, 2020, your GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size and topology.
We’re making some changes to the way we offer Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Starting June 6, 2020, your GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size and topology. We’re also introducing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that’s financially backed with a guaranteed availability of 99.95% for regional clusters and 99.5% for zonal clusters running a version of GKE available through the Stable release channel. Below, you’ll find additional details about the new SLA and information to help you reduce your costs."