[david-s]

It doesn't seem to include Digital Ocean in the comparison.

[spalas]

Author here -- I can add DO to the comparison today, I'll ping here once I have done so!

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EDIT: Done!

I have updated the notebook with the digital Ocean offering using their General Purpose (dedicated CPU) droplets.

The major takeaways for DO are that they:

  - Also do not charge for the control plane resources
  - $/vCPU is less expensive than the other providers
  - $/GB memory is more  expensive than the other providers
  - No preemptible or committed use discounts available

For smaller clusters and/or clusters running CPU bound workloads, DO looks like the most affordable option!

[patrickaljord]

How about https://www.packet.com/solutions/kubernetes/ ?

[mjfisher]

Digital Ocean is still significantly cheaper (unsurprisingly). They don't charge for the control plane, so you just pay the normal prices for the droplets and resources you use. It's well integrated, allowing K8 to provision load balancers and volumes, and the Terraform provider for it works well.

My (admittedly small) cluster of 3x 4Gb droplets, an external load balancer, and volumes enough for logs, databases and filesystems costs about 70 USD/Month. It's been absolutely rock solid too. I have very few minor gripes and a lot of positive things to say about it.

[gingerlime]

Isn't it more limited though, e.g. with auto-scaling not available for nodes, but only for pods?

[tmpz22]

What’s the story for automatically provisions TLS certificates for your load balancer been like?

[axaxs]

DO is my absolute favorite. I really think they could be a long term winner. Their interface is so much nicer than the competitors, in my opinion. I'm not even currently a customer, let alone a shill.

[steve_adams_86]

I agree that DO is awesome. I'd argue though that they can make a better UI because they offer less. Everything is a littler simpler. It would be hard to condense AWS into a similar type of interface.

Having said that, DO is enough for virtually everything I've ever worked on, and the user experience and price are so much better. They're a clear winner for almost everything I do these days.

[based2]

They are not also listed in https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/c...

https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes#cloud-prov...

https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-kubernetes-c...

https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/public-cloud/kubernetes/

[dindresto]

Yeah I was very disappointed to see that this is limited to the "regular" three...

[spalas]

I went back and added in Digital Ocean per the parent comment's request!

The article and Jupyter Notebook now reflect that change.

[BinaryArcher]

Because DO is crap and they treat their customers like crap. Constantly breaking SLAs and revoking enterprise accounts.