| ▲ | sbstp 12 hours ago | |
Most control planes are not free anymore, they cost like 70$/mo on AWS & GCP. Used to be a while back. | ||
| ▲ | dikei 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
GCP has $74 free credit for Zonal cluster, so you effectively have the first cluster for free. And even $70 is cheap, considering that a cluster should be shared by all the services from all the teams in the same environment, bar very few exceptions. | ||
| ▲ | szszrk 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
That's around the cost of a single VM (cheapest 8GB ram I found quickly). Azure has a free tier with control plane completely free (but no SLA) - great deal for test clusters and testing infra. If you are that worried about costs, then public cloud may not be for you at all, or you should look at ECS/App containers or serverless. | ||