Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. DigitalOcean Kubernetes

At one instance, there was a fire in our data center and the backup power had some issues because of which the whole DC went down. I believe with AKS and the replication it's easier to handle such a situation. Also, the scenario would have been pretty transparent to the end-users.

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DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment.

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• Highly repeatable process
• Minimizes the amount of software to install
• Easily scale resources to meet demand

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• Hosted dashboard
• Hosted container registry
• Horizontal auto-scaling
• LetsEncrypt SSL termination

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• Need to update cluster manually
• Policies cannot be updated for existing components
• if any change in policy every has to create cluster

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• Option for internal VPC-only deployment
• Better integration with cloud firewall
• Better integration with DO App platform via VPC

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Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.

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The ability to create new instances (i.e. elastic provisioning) is probably the fastest with Azure Kubernetes Service compared to the alternatives that I have looked at. From a pricing perspective, Microsoft always seems to find a way to be more competitive in this area, and literally every other field they play in.

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DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in.

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• Positive impact in moving applications to cloud from the in-hose data center to save cost
• Sometimes got affected with some bugs on the AKS infrastructure but hasn't caused a big kios as our production footprint in AKS is not yet high

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• Excellent uptime
• Low cost for provided value
• Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value

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