For about $70 per month, you could get managed Kubernetes from AWS, GCP or Azure. Why would you bother with Kops on these platforms? Also DO, OVH and Vultr provide managed K8s for free.
Depends on how well managed it is (hint: not always good).
For a high performance service like ClickHouse the nodes may need to be optimized and that's not often done in the fully managed solutions.
For EKS they often take forever to get to the current version of k8s and that might be a problem.
Whilst performance of the master nodes have increased recently they might not be up to scratch for what's required if you're doing a lot of operations.
All in all managed does not mean fit for all requirements. It certainly is great for at least 80% of cases but not all.
EKS and GKE are good products. We run a competing platform for ClickHouse on AWS and made the same decision as ClickHouse Inc 3 years ago and for very similar reasons. Kubernetes requires investment to run well, especially if you aspire to be multi-platform.
The question I would ask is would your team have the bandwidth and experience to do it better than GKE , EKS ,AKS etc.? My employer deploys to AKS and Anthos ; they both have limitations but my advise to teams is to work within those limitations as we are in the business of building business applications and not systems management s/w.
> Why would you bother with Kops on these platforms?
Given sytse is the CEO and founder of GitLab, I am sure he’s not interested in getting vendor locked. Community solutions like kops help keep things open and accessible to everyone.
