Cisco Container Platform Other Solutions Considered

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Cloud Architect, Feltus Lab at Clemson University

It depends on where you put your value. If you put your value in time savings as far as management admin go, you will get a lot of value from Cisco Container Platform because it allows you to manage multiple clusters from multiple resource providers from one location. That will definitely save you a lot of time, in the long run, if you're a pretty robust admin who is responsible for a lot of different clusters on a lot of different resources. 

But certain public cloud platforms do have features that will save you money in terms of compute-billing that I haven't seen yet with CCP. An example of that would be preemptable virtual machines. I know AWS and Google and perhaps Microsoft, all offer deployment of cube clusters with virtual machines that can be preempted. So if another process needs it, it can take your node from you. That's fine because Kubernetes is built to handle node preemption. It's a very robust system so it's fine. It actually saves you a ton of money and compute. I don't think CCP offers preemptable VMs with public cloud yet. But I'm not totally sure about the newest version or editions.

Another thing that will save you a lot of money on other public cloud platforms is auto-scaling. If you're using the Google Kubernetes Engine or Amazon's EKS, it will automatically either scale up the nodes if your platform is getting used more or scale down the nodes if they aren't getting used. That, combined with preemptive VMs, will save you a lot of money in your compute billing.

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