I loved the article. Insightful, and packed with real world applications. What a gem.
I have a side-question pertaining to cost-cutting with Kubernetes. I've been musing over the idea of setting up Kubernetes clusters similar to these ones but mixing on-premises nodes with nodes from the cloud provider. The setup would be something like:
- vCPUs for bursty workloads,
- bare metal nodes for the performance-oriented workloads required as base-loads,
- on-premises nodes for spiky performance-oriented workloads, and dirt-cheap on-demand scaling.
What I believe will be the primary unknown is egress costs.
I have a side-question pertaining to cost-cutting with Kubernetes. I've been musing over the idea of setting up Kubernetes clusters similar to these ones but mixing on-premises nodes with nodes from the cloud provider. The setup would be something like:
- vCPUs for bursty workloads,
- bare metal nodes for the performance-oriented workloads required as base-loads,
- on-premises nodes for spiky performance-oriented workloads, and dirt-cheap on-demand scaling.
What I believe will be the primary unknown is egress costs.
Has anyone ever toyed around with the idea?