Hetzner

Scaleway , a French company based in Paris, owned by Illiad telecommunication provider, just announced public availability of their managed Kubernetes solution called Kapsule . Scaleway has 5 data centers, 4 in France and 1 in Netherlands, but at the moment Kapsule (public beta version) is available just in the datacenter in Paris. DigitalOcean just got competition, so we can compare the pricing schemes in the later text.

I’ve just seen a talk on YouTube where running self managed Kubernetes cluster was described as ninja technique. I strongly disagree with this and actually want to disapprove it in this article. Running self managed K8S can also be inexpensive if you use a provider such as Hetzner Cloud.