GKE Compute Cost Comparisons In Small Clusters

Sun, 21 May 2023 19:00:00 -0100

I’ve been running a short-term experiment across the GKE Compute options within my “Home Lab” (read: GCP-hosted Google Kubernetes Engine) with a view to optimise for a balance between ease of operation and cost efficiency. If that sounds useful to you, then by all means read on!

Let’s dive right in with the Billing data. The chart below shows the view of costs over the course of my two-month experiment for this small GKE Cluster. I’ll be stepping across this graph to detail each experiment I ran and what led to these outcomes, as well as some of the trade-offs along the way.

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GKE Compute Cost Comparisons In Small Clusters