[what-the-grump]

Static host stuff on an S3 bucket / static web app. Blob storage account with a table, maybe an on-demand function app.

Sub $15/mo to run your thing until you get real demand, yeah. But its not new, the K8S shtick is coming from investors not tech people. And if its coming from the tech people throw them out of the door.

Why are you cooking for 8000 people when 6 are coming over? Why are you building a kitchen to cook for 8000 people. Why are you renting space to fit 8000 people.

You need a table and maybe 6 chairs who knows they might eat standing.

[hdjjhhvvhga]

> the K8S shtick is coming from investors not tech people.

Not necessarily. If you need to deal with many containerized apps that are updated and deployed regularly, k8s is a really great tool.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say < 5 - no, > 20 - yes, and everything in between - up to you.

[zimpenfish]

> Why are you cooking for 8000 people when 6 are coming over?

Place I worked at had a service running on K8s with, I think, 4 pods, and it got on average one hit every 2-3 seconds during office hours (and virtually none outside those.)

[hdjjhhvvhga]

So I'd say the number of pods was appropriate.

[zimpenfish]

You might have to show me the working there because I'm failing to follow how 4 pods is appropriate for a service doing about 15k requests a day.

[hdjjhhvvhga]

15k/day is nothing, and 4 pods are almost nothing. You could probably have 2 and nothing would have changed.

[what-the-grump]

Or a single 2 core server, double it up if you want HA…