[robertlagrant]

Those aren't features of Kubernetes.

If you like you can install a free ingress such as NginX and route traffic to it.

If you like you can just have logs on your physical nodes and go look one by one, just as you would have to before things like k8s came along. Datadog is a value add. It's not essential.

GCP preemptible VMs are nothing to do with k8s - they are literally designed to be short-term (up to 24 hours) VMs to do things with. Yes, GKE can use them, but not as persistent resources. That's not what they're for.

Here's what they're for:

> Preemptible VMs are Compute Engine VM instances that last a maximum of 24 hours, and provide no availability guarantees.

I.e. don't try and "get away with" them. There are plenty of options for cheap K8s.

[marcos100]

Yes, you can setup your own kubernetes if you want, using just ec2, but nobody wants to do it because it's easier to just pay.

I think k8s actually saves you money, because it allows you to use your resources better.

[robertlagrant]

Yep - you can also just use a VPS or even some Raspberry Pis in your home.

[option_greek]

The ingress can be free with Nginx but not the inbound firewall rule that passes the traffic to Nginx. And 'coincidentally' it costs the same $ as using their load balancer which automatically has this rule applied.

[robertlagrant]

You're talking about a cloud provider's fees, not kubernetes.

[immibis]

It sounds like it's just setting up the load balancer for you behind the scenes? Kubernetes isn't a load balancing engine, to my knowledge. It just sets up containers and stuff.