Affordable GKE cluster
With any project, personal or for clients, I develop and build applications in Docker containers; so it would be really convenient to run these as containers in production. Usually I’ll spin up a small Ubuntu VM (GCP/Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean) and install Docker manually. I would love to run everything with Kubernetes as a container orchestrator, but the costs of such a cluster for personal usage seems rather high. Until I found this article by Remko Seelig, using Kubernetes on Google Cloud with preemptible nodes, which is about half the price of regular instances....