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Hey KenCochrane, I’m the Product Manager on this product at DigitalOcean. VonGuard is right, you only pay for the worker nodes (based on our Droplet pricing, th

Hey KenCochrane, I’m the Product Manager on this product at DigitalOcean. VonGuard is right, you only pay for the worker nodes (based on our Droplet pricing, there’s no premium) and we take care of the master. Our standard pricing lives here: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

claudemiro 8y ago
Will be possible to run it in a single node scenario?
- mejamiewilson 8y ago
  Yes, you’ll be able to spin up a single node cluster.
misframer 8y ago
Will there be a minimum size for a worker node?
- mejamiewilson 8y ago
  Currently it’s our $5 droplet (1GB RAM, 1 vCPU), but if you have a use case for smaller nodes I’d love to hear about it!
  - Can_Not 8y ago
    What about a competing product to AWS's lambda?
    - ericpauley 8y ago
      DING DING DING If you guys offered a lambda competitor with similarly competitive compute/bandwidth pricing I'd be all over it in a second.
    - tedmiston 8y ago
      You could run Kubeless on k8s on DO
    - mejamiewilson 8y ago
      Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Kubernetes on DigitalOcean is the first step for us to enable more managed services like Lambda. You will be able to deploy projects like OpenFaaS or Fn very simply, but currently you would still need to determine your node pool for capacity.
  - misframer 8y ago
    Awesome! The TechCrunch article [0] shows "16GB -> 192GB" in the screenshot so I just wanted to confirm. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/digital-ocean-launches-its-container-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/digital-ocean-launches-its...
cdnsteve 8y ago
Excellent thanks for sharing!
plokiju21 8y ago
Right now, GKE charges $18/month for a load balancer on top of node costs, which is costly for small scale/personal projects. Will DigitalOcean have anything similar?
- mejamiewilson 8y ago
  Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Currently we'll deploy our DigitalOcean Load Balancer on your behalf, which is $20 a month, but we are also investigating other options. If you have any thoughts on how this should work, or what specifically you'd be looking for, I'd love to hear them.
  - lucasyvas 8y ago
    Speaking personally, I'd rather opt out of the Load Balancer altogether and instead have a floating IP automatically set up across the workers. Ingresses are easy enough to set up so that would complete the picture. I think having the Load Balancer option is important for simplicity, but I feel a lot of DO customers (such as myself) opt to use DO for optimizing cost as well. It's a balance.

claudemiro 8y ago

Will be possible to run it in a single node scenario?

mejamiewilson 8y ago
Yes, you’ll be able to spin up a single node cluster.

misframer 8y ago

Will there be a minimum size for a worker node?

mejamiewilson 8y ago
Currently it’s our $5 droplet (1GB RAM, 1 vCPU), but if you have a use case for smaller nodes I’d love to hear about it!
- Can_Not 8y ago
  What about a competing product to AWS's lambda?
  - ericpauley 8y ago
    DING DING DING If you guys offered a lambda competitor with similarly competitive compute/bandwidth pricing I'd be all over it in a second.
  - tedmiston 8y ago
    You could run Kubeless on k8s on DO
  - mejamiewilson 8y ago
    Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Kubernetes on DigitalOcean is the first step for us to enable more managed services like Lambda. You will be able to deploy projects like OpenFaaS or Fn very simply, but currently you would still need to determine your node pool for capacity.
- misframer 8y ago
  Awesome! The TechCrunch article [0] shows "16GB -> 192GB" in the screenshot so I just wanted to confirm. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/digital-ocean-launches-its-container-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/digital-ocean-launches-its...

cdnsteve 8y ago

Excellent thanks for sharing!

plokiju21 8y ago

Right now, GKE charges $18/month for a load balancer on top of node costs, which is costly for small scale/personal projects. Will DigitalOcean have anything similar?

mejamiewilson 8y ago
Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Currently we'll deploy our DigitalOcean Load Balancer on your behalf, which is $20 a month, but we are also investigating other options. If you have any thoughts on how this should work, or what specifically you'd be looking for, I'd love to hear them.
- lucasyvas 8y ago
  Speaking personally, I'd rather opt out of the Load Balancer altogether and instead have a floating IP automatically set up across the workers. Ingresses are easy enough to set up so that would complete the picture. I think having the Load Balancer option is important for simplicity, but I feel a lot of DO customers (such as myself) opt to use DO for optimizing cost as well. It's a balance.