[geku]

Getting started with Kubernetes is pretty easy and I wrote a guide to quickly run it on your local machine: https://www.cloudgear.net/blog/2015/5-minutes-kubernetes-set...

It's not up to date with Kubernetes 1.0.0 but I'll update the images as soon as the final version 1 is tagged.

[TheIronYuppie]

I definitely don't want this to come off as a sales pitch, but you can get started in one click using Google Container Engine (and $300 in free credit) as well.

Full disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes

[teraflop]

Except: "Sorry, you aren't eligible for a free trial at this time. The free trial is for new customers only."

Apparently, the fact that I've been curious enough to experiment with other Google developer products in the past means I'm not part of the target audience.

[TheIronYuppie]

Sorry about that! Free trials have a timeout :(

Can you submit a support request and we'll see what we can do?

Also, spinning up a cluster should be incredibly cheap if you just want to mess around for a little bit - we do billing by the minute :)

Full disclosure: I work on Google on Kubernetes

[teraflop]

Yeah, sorry if that came off as snarky; I appreciate the suggestion.

I guess I can understand the cost-cutting mentality that drives Google, AWS, etc. to limit these kinds of offers to "new customers" only. Just remember to consider what kind of incentives you're creating. By effectively punishing developers for being early adopters/experimenters, you're making them wary of signing up early for whatever new and interesting stuff you announce in the future.

[miles932]

Any suggestions for incentive systems that would be motivational for you? We want to help!

Full Disclosure: I work at Google on da Cloudz

[boundlessdreamz]

There should be several types of free trials

1. Current type for new customers. Here's $500. Do whatever you want

2. For old customers who haven't ever used a free trial, give credit without limits (same as new customers)

3. For old customers who have used a free trial give credit only for services they haven't used

[teraflop]

Got a fairly quick response from Google Cloud Billing Support:

"Unfortunately, the system is developed by design to only apply the free trial credit to new email address creating a new billing account and we can't apply it for already existing emails." Bummer.

[pestaa]

Or they assume your wallet is already open.

[andybak]

Then they are wrong.

I actually find this a common issue with a presumed sales pipeline I encounter.

They think:

1. He finds us. 2. He's interested and signs up for a trial 3. We hopefully convert before the trial is over

What actually tends to happen

1. I find something that looks interesting 2. I sign up 3. Real work intervenes 4. Several months later I have some time to look again but my trial has expired.

To be fair most companies respond to a quick email but they could be proactive and do the following:

1. If no activity is detected after the first day pause the trial 2. Some time later send an email saying "We've paused your trial. Please choose either: 1. to reactivate it, 2. be reminded in another x weeks or 3. never hear from us again.

[andybak]

(this would be more readable if Markdown was less idiotic)

[azernik]

The problem isn't that Markdown is idiotic; the problem is that Hacker News doesn't use Markdown at all.

GitHub and Reddit have conditioned us to think that any halfway decent discussion system must use it :-P

[gtaylor]

We were looking at this, but noticed that you have to one run cluster per availability zone. Any plans for being able to run a cluster across an entire region within GCE?

[alex-mohr]

Yes, we've heard from a number of people who want that and will improve regional support.

Current ideas are either a single regional cluster or via federation of multiple zonal clusters.

See eg https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/maste... for an proposal on the latter.

[gtaylor]

FWIW, I'd love to have Kubernetes clusters spanning a region with multiple regions/providers managed by Ubernetes. That would be the sweet spot for our particular usage case.

This is only one point of data for you, of course.

[sarnowski]

Kubernetes Cluster Federation (proposal) "Ubernetes"

"Today, each Kubernetes cluster is a relatively self-contained unit, which typically runs in a single "on-premise" data centre or single availability zone of a cloud provider (Google's GCE, Amazon's AWS, etc)."

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/relea...

[juliangregorian]

While cute, that name would make Kubernetes appear to be the KDE version of Ubernetes.

[benmccann]

Agreed. That's the only reason we're not on Kubernetes right now. It really dramatically increases the amount of infrastructure we need to run when we're forced to run three Kubernetes clusters to run a single MongoDB replica set. But I love everything else Kubernetes is doing and so I'm very anxious to see that be addressed.

[rspeer]

Well, it's certainly not a sales pitch anymore, given the brilliant customer support on display here.