[jturolla]

Really amazed by their great work. I'll look forward to upgrade the setup at my company. Since we started using kubernetes, we reduced our bill to 30% of its original price, and it made everything easier and scalable just as if we were using the costy Heroku. It's a really useful tech for third-world startups that cannot afford to spend thousands of dollars on infraestructure. I hope I can contribute to this OSS in the near future.

[chrissnell]

We've seen similar savings at our company. We have deployed Kube on a 6-node cluster of CoreOS nodes with 512GB each. These are dedicated servers hosted at Rackspace. We're about 30-40% utilized on RAM and maybe 15-20% on CPU. To host a similar set of services on our older Openstack environment would require at least 2-3x the number of servers. The cost savings isn't even the best part. Kubernetes has allowed us to build a completely self-service pipeline for our devs and has taken the ops team out of day-to-day app management. The nodes update themselves with the latest OS and Kube shifts the workload around as they do. This infrastructure is faster, more nimble, more cost-effective and so much easier to run.

This is the best infrastructure I've ever used in twenty years of doing ops and leading ops teams.

[thockingoog]

You folks don't know how much it means to us to hear that people are finding success with Kubernetes. Thanks for using it. We'll try to keep pushing the envelope.

[brokebook]

so true, the self service aspect is indeed amazing. once developers or qa people grok the concepts and api it can do wonders to your productivity.

also, working with k8s will probably spoil you, it's pretty annoying to "go back" to other environments, where you're confronted with problems which would be effortlessly solvable in kubernetes.

[TheIronYuppie]

I can't agree more with others in the thread. This entire comment warms the cockles of my cold dead heart.

I know Silicon Valley folks are infinitely pessimistic and/or grandiose, but this is LITERALLY the reason I got into this job.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes

[aedocw]

Have you compared the cost of maintaining your own CoreOS infrastructure at RAX just for kubernetes to using Googles Container Engine? If your services are all containerized and deployed via k8s to begin with, seems like you wouldn't have much reason to maintain your own infra at that point.