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by erulabs 2531 days ago
I've just quit my job at Stripe and founded a startup to tackle K8S hard multi-tenancy, particularly for companies who want to "build a cloud" for their customers but aren't sure where to start. If anyone is interested please feel free to drop me an email! https://kubesail.com
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dwild 2531 days ago
Your service is exactly what I wanted for a pretty long time for an accessible price.

Are you going to offer bigger package too? The hobby one is most probably more than enough for me for a long time but I may need more later on.

The templates are nice at first too but they are hard to get to afterward (I found it back when clicking on my user image).

EDIT: I also love that you include the kubectl commands on each page, for a newbie that's amazing!

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erulabs 2531 days ago
Heya! Yes, bigger and more flexible plans coming soon! Templates are a brand new feature and we're working hard to enable Helm template support there - but eventually the "template search" will make its way to the main deployments page (and will get a looooot more templates!)
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jhabdas 2531 days ago
Nice-looking landing page. Please consider adding a newsletter sign-up so individuals can be made aware when email registration is added. If you're looking for other SSO providers take a peek at what Gitea has done.
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sieabahlpark 2531 days ago
Wouldn't this just be a more expensive aws since you're more than likely be hosted on a major cloud provider?
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erulabs 2531 days ago
Yes in theory, no in practice.

Our public shared tier (Heroku-like offering) is on AWS for now - but we have a few advantages in that we can run reserved spot instances and use far less overhead than we would with virtual machines. We will more than likely move this to dedicated hardware eventually since we use almost nothing AWS has to offer other than compute, network and NVMe. Our free tier is better than AWS's ever will be, because although we might offer fewer resources (CPU/memory), our offer is automatically highly-available out of the box, and you share a server with _much_ better network and diskIO than AWS can offer, which means different but typically similar performance. We also don't up charge for services like Postgres and Redis (they use the same resources as any other "app" or container). Also we have an open API (kubernetes!) you can use on your laptop or dedicated gear!

But the more important "no in practice" is for companies who offer some value add - say for example Intragram wanted to allow you to run some code that manipulated your images server-side (or more realistically, think PagerDuty allowing custom web-hooks from their servers based on code you write on their site). Hopefully one day large companies that need a public cloud but cannot use Amazon for Reasons(tm) also see us as an option as well.

One final "no in practice" is due to our tool's ultimate goal to be to nicely encourage developers to build cloud native apps - and we believe high-available applications are actually "cheaper" than commodity-priced single-point-of-failure applications. See any website you use your credit card on that crashes all the time.

I'd like to think of it as "isn't this just a better Heroku?" instead of a more expensive AWS :P

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