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I've worked at a few tiny startups, and I've both manually administered a single server and run small k8s clusters. k8s is way easier. I think I've spent 1, maybe 2 hours on devops this year. It's not a full-time job, it's not a part-time job, it's not even an unpaid internship. Perhaps at a bigger company with more resources and odd requirements...

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nicce 3 months ago | parent [-]

But how much this costs extra? Sounds like you are using cloud-provided k8s.

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sobellian 3 months ago | parent | next [-]

EKS is priced at $876 / yr / cluster at current rates.

Negligible for me personally, it's much less than either our EC2 or RDS costs.

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fer 3 months ago | parent [-]

Yeah, using EKS isn't the same thing as "administering k8s", unless I misread you above. Actual administration is already done for you, it's batteries included, turn-key, and integrated with everything AWS.

A job ago we had our own k8s cluster in our own DC, and it required a couple of teams to keep running and reasonably integrated with everything else in the rest of the company. It was probably cheaper overall than cloud given the compute capacity we had, but also probably not by much given the amount of people dedicated to it.

Even my 3-node k3s at home requires more attention than what you described.

	▲	sobellian 3 months ago \| parent [-]
		You did misread me, I never said I administered k8s. The quoted phrase does not exist :)

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p_l 3 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I currently use k8s to control bunch of servers.

The amount of work/cost of using k8s for handling them in comparison to doing it "old style" is probably negative by now.