[yashkadakia]

Yup, we just moved large chunks of our SaaS platform from the cloud to dedicated servers with Kubernetes serving as an internal cloud. Ended up reducing our cost to 30% (70% saved!).

We realized that instead of using scaling for peaks, by having additional dedicated servers available full time - it still worked out significantly cheaper. We also moved a lot of our internal processing to run in specific windows of time where the expected load was low to maximize server utilization in those periods.

[ssss11]

Sorry what’s an “internal cloud”? Please tell me we haven’t renamed on-prem.

[simonjgreen]

The term "private cloud" has existed for easily 15 years, pretty much straight after Google coined the term "cloud computing". The current deifnition of "on-prem" actually changed after cloud computing reached mass adoption. Prior to then, on-prem referred to "in your office" vs. "in a datacenter". These days "on-prem" means "not in public cloud".

[_flux]

Yes, it's basically the same as "on prem", but instead just a bunch of individual (virtual) servers they are managed by a system that provides typical cloud APIs, such as OpenStack.

[Marazan]

It will mean compute resources that can be transparently shared amongst different things (which is where the K8s comes in) as opposed to boxes dedicated to a single service.

[monkeywork]

on-prem services but running with the tooling that is typically used for cloud computing rather than bare-metal on-prem of old.