Hetzner · The Blog of Boban Acimovic

Inexpensive managed Kubernetes solutions

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.

Kapsule service includes block storage (PersistentVolumeClaim), pool autoscaling, control-plane’s upgrade, S3 compatible object storage and container registry with free bandwidth. You won’t pay any special fee for Kapsule, you pay just for instances, load balancers and block storage (free for early access).

Kubernetes

Run K8S like ninja

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.

As a prerequisite to complete the following step, you need to install Go first. Now let’s install hcloud command line utility :

export PATH=~/go/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH
go get -u github.com/hetznercloud/cli/cmd/hcloud

In order to be able to connect to your Hetzner Cloud account using hcloud command, you will need to get your API key on their web console and export it: