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coffeesn0bon Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale

Caleb here - you nailed it. I really don't have anything to add!

coffeesn0bon Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale

Our cost is actually something like $900 for the whole cluster :) . Consumer grade clustering FTW!

coffeesn0bon Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale

It's actually 3 nodes, with plans to expand out to more based on workload.

coffeesn0bon Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale

(I'm re-pasting this intro to a few posters)

Hey! I'm Caleb, the SRE that helped build this solution...

Sorry about the lack of context in the article, it was intended for a specific audience (QCon) where we gave a lot more context to the problem at hand.

What we were trying to solve for was; 1) Low latency 2) High Availability 3) Container based, zero-downtime deployments 4) Continued operations even in an internet-down event

If you're running applications in a few locations, in small scale environments, our approach would be way overkill for that problem set.