[segmondy]

I don't know your location, but if you are in the US and running your own k8s on baremetals, I would reckon you should have at least 1 full time person on staff to handle all of it. Let's say that person costs only $50k/yr. Will your workload on Google cost more than $50k? Google pretty much really does all of the management for GKE. Just deploy your app and run.

[cardine]

>I would reckon you should have at least 1 full time person on staff to handle all of it.

What exactly would that person be handling? We probably spend no more than a couple hours per week handling everything involved. That's the point of something like Kubernetes in the first place.

>Will your workload on Google cost more than $50k?

Our sever bill with GKE would far exceed $50k/yr (it would exceed $50k/mo!)

As a result, Hetzner is a no-brainer for us. As mentioned before, that might be different for you if you are doing something that is computationally light.

[Drdrdrq]

Well if you are running k8s you already have that person. The real question is, is it worth putting additional load on that person in exchange for savings?

[mijamo]

That is not my experience with GKE. And 50k/y is super low with Google Cloud. It's really easy to get at least 5 times higher even with a small application.

Funnily I spend more time administrating GKE than I do with applications on VPS.