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Has anyone used Vultr's managed Kubernetes engine


Vultr.com seems to keep upgrading their services. A while back they added managed Kubernetes. Has anyone used it? Experiences? Good enough for internal use? Anyone dare use it for prod?

Edit: they also just added managed databases, though Postgres is still coming soon. Anyone try this?

Their performance is excellent and we've had good experience with them for internal service hosting for some time now. Never put prod on them except for a Discus forum and a few other things like that.

  👤 alexnewman Accepted Answer ✓
I’ll never use any managed K8s product and here’s why

I only use K8s for complicated deployments where cost is something to optimize for. K8s provides vender neutral expression , but once you buy into managed K8s you have a non agnostic management set. managed K8s generally is more expensive and often prevents use of spot.