caophim / dev / 34 / - >Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

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>Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22485625

Man oh man
>This is awful - I don’t think GCP is fully aware of their position in the market as the second, inferior choice. I took a bet on the underdog by using GCP and they bit me back in return. Especially considering their ‘default’ kubernetes config automatically sets you up with three(!) control planes in replication, that’s, as far as I understand, $~300 added to our monthly bill, for nothing.
>$~300

The absolute state of hackernews

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>not just say something funky to the GCP sale guy and receive $30000 service giftcard to use them

one of my past job was a bunch of do nothinger and their dayjob was to convice Google to giveout these coupons for them to resells to other companies for quick bucks