[throwaway894345]

I just completed a migration from AWS to GCP. My experience was previously entirely AWS, but GCP has been really nice. GCP has fewer features (e.g., no scheduled filestore backups), but GKE is far and away better than EKS and the overall console UX is far better as well. There’s also generally less to understand and thus misconfigure, and far fewer half-baked features to wade through to find the happy path (I’ve spent way too much time using CloudFormation).

[slenk]

I feel you on Cloudformation :S

I haven't used Kubernetes on either platform - so there may be more to that.

One thing I really dislike about GCP is how expensive it is for personal or hobby use. I burned through $300 for a simple vm on GCP in a few weeks because their cheapest instances are so expensive.

[dilyevsky]

How? Their single core instance is like $25/mo, it took me months to burn through it

[gunshowmo]

GKE in particular has a very high overhead cost per cluster. That's the only reason I bothered learning kOps and Terraform.

[dilyevsky]

That is incorrect. It costs $75/mo and they give you that as credit. Also why use gke if you’re trying to learn kubernetes? Single instance kubeadm cluster is perfectly fine for that purpose (even better)

[throwaway894345]

If you roll your own cluster without GKE, I believe you have to configure your own load balancers, ingress controllers, etc. Having some of that ready to go out of the box allows you to learn Kubernetes concepts more gradually.

[ZephyrBlu]

> I burned through $300 for a simple vm on GCP in a few weeks because their cheapest instances are so expensive

How'd you manage that? My bill is always super lower every month.

[throwaway894345]

Yeah, navigating either platform is tough for hobbyists. I can get more lambda invocations than I’ll ever use for free but a single load balancer is like $30/month, never mind instances.

[slenk]

Yeah...yeah.

I will say - reserved instance pricing is great on AWS if you know you will be there for a while.