Mastering Kubernetes - Second Edition

Capacity overflow

The public cloud platforms, such as AWS, GCE, and Azure, are great and provide many benefits, but they are not cheap. Many large organizations have invested a lot in their own data centers. Other organizations work with private service providers such as OVS, Rackspace, or Digital Ocean. If you have the operational capacity to manage and operate infrastructure on your own, it makes a lot of economic sense to run your Kubernetes cluster on your infrastructure rather than in the cloud. But what if some of your workloads fluctuate and require a lot more capacity for a relatively short amount of time?

For example, your system may be hit especially hard on the weekends or maybe during holidays. The traditional approach is to just ...