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by steveklabnik 869 days ago
(I work at Oxide)

> I doubt we have the budget for a machine like that.

Before even thinking about budget,

> for a significant national enterprise in a developing country.

I suspect we just aren't ready to sell in your country, whatever it is, for very normal "gotta get the product certified through safety regulations" kinds of reasons. We will get there eventually.

buuuuut also,

> Are there any other environments where I can manage a set of applications on a cluster of say 10 compute VMs? Any other suggestions?

Oxide would give you those VMs, but if you want orchestration with them, you'd be running kubes or whatever else, yourself, on top of it. So I don't think our current product would give you exactly what you want anyway, or at least, you'd be in the same spot you are now with regards to the orchestration layer.

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Hey Steve, thank you for this comment, I did wonder if Oxide systems did container orchestration; now I know :)

Totally get it re certification etc. There is probably some kind of bilateral standards arrangement with one of the neighbouring countries but I agree with your general thrust - we’re a long way from the point where that’s actually a consideration.

You're welcome, and good luck with the project.