On: Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster ...

[sethvargo]

We offer one free zonal cluster, which is specifically designed for your use case :)

[sofaofthedamned → sethvargo]

I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.

You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.

[youngdynasty → sethvargo]

I use more than one zone because I run TCP services which need low latency. I'll probably just switch to Digital Ocean.