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Considering I spend $5 a month on my digitalocean droplet that runs docker 1.11 and a bunch of containers (nothing consequential though), and Gondor wants $100 for their entry-level "dev" tier...

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Presumably if you're looking into Kubernetes, your workload demands require more than 512MB of memory and single-core processing.

Of course. But you may also correctly presume that I'll question why this would cost US$100/m for a "dev" offering. Considering what I can get for that from the other incumbents.

You're referring to the pricing on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) which is not the same as Kel linked in the OP.

It appears that Gondor is a managed PaaS, which can justify the additional cost for businesses with capital. It is likely not intended for hobbyists.

Kel is a sort of replacement for Gondor, as far as I can tell: https://gondor.io/blog/2016/04/21/goodbye-gondor-hello-kel-e...

Some more background info here regarding Kel and it's relation to Gondor by Brian Rosner, the main dev of both Gondor and Kel as far as I can tell: https://brosner.com/blog/2016/05/05/kel/

I dunno, free failover is pretty enticing. But obviously one can just buy some GKE.

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