Provider Selection

Objectives

• Cost effective (Cluster and resources)
• Availability of various machines for Nodes and Storage
• Environmental friendly (Carbon footprint)
• Managed Cluster so we don't have to care about installing/maintaining/upgrading the Cluster & Control plane

Options

• Scaleway Kapsule
• Scaleway Kosmos
• Linode

Scaleway Kapsule

• Free Managed Cluster with Ingress
• Limited to Scaleway resources
• Limited to Compute Instances: no Elastic Metal nor Dedibox
• PVC limited to Scaleway Block Storage

Scaleway Kosmos

• Paid Managed Cluster: 120€/m
• Any Ubuntu 20.04 machine can join easily

Linode

• No environment policy
• Free managed Cluster
• No dedicated hardware resources