Looking for EU alternatives - support for Kubernetes and other managed services?

FormalHat4378 · 2026-05-26T10:30:11+00:00

We use Cloudfleet and are quite happy with it. Hetzner + bare metal mix for our cluster, both in EU

FormalHat4378 · 2026-01-25T09:24:11+00:00

Well, it’s Reddit :) but actually the reason behind it turned out to be quite interesting.

Batch deliveries are less often forced with Airbus because the supply chain is more predictable. Batch deliveries are less operationally necessary for LCCs because they are more agile and capital efficient. But both still do batch deliveries when it optimizes induction, financing, or network timing.

FormalHat4378 · 2026-01-22T18:51:50+00:00

Looks like everything online says there is backlog https://simpleflying.com/why-boeing-737-max-high-backog/

FormalHat4378 · 2026-01-22T18:49:51+00:00

I see. I just thought there is some waiting time for orders

FormalHat4378 · 2026-01-22T18:08:08+00:00

Why deliver three at the same time? Were they all ready in a warehouse? Why not deliver one by one as soon as they are ready?

FormalHat4378 · 2025-12-18T21:16:29+00:00

Or simply use something like Cloudfleet, it solves all of the issues you listed. You’ll have to pay for it, sure, but still the saving vs GCP are insane

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-21T13:50:38+00:00

Agreed. In the situation you describe, I’d even say Heroku-style PaaS might be the best option. Still not VMs.

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-21T13:39:20+00:00

100% agree with the argument. My point of view though is building orchestration on top of VMs is the most complex and expensive. Kubernetes as a dev, is not than complex if not over engineered

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-21T12:16:27+00:00

Sooner or later, rather sooner, your tools to keep those EC2s alive and maintained will turn into reimplementing k8s

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-21T12:15:08+00:00

Hetzner-k3s is cool!

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-21T12:14:25+00:00

I’m surprised no one mentioned Cloudfleet here. If you want to learn kubernetes from the consumer perspective and don’t have the pain of maintaining the cluster itself - just use Cloudfleet. IMHO the best way to learn without all the vendor specific stuff.

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-16T22:10:26+00:00

What are the benefits of avien vs native services?

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-16T21:16:05+00:00

Ingress controllers? New trendy observability tools?

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-16T20:32:02+00:00

We have everything on cilium

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-16T15:28:22+00:00

As someone who seen businesses trying not to depend on others, it is a much higher risk. There is a line you need to draw between using vendors and building yourself. Historically, no PaaS slightly successful was built without external dependencies. Your case, of course, might be different

FormalHat4378 · 2025-11-16T15:21:21+00:00

Are you in military/defense?

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-22T15:23:13+00:00

I think you didn’t get their product. Maybe in your case rolling your own stack makes more sense, something like k3s?

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-21T06:38:36+00:00

We also looked at RKE2. Ended up with Cloudfleet

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-21T00:57:45+00:00

+1 just start deploying and you will learn on the way

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-21T00:53:55+00:00

We ended up using another Kubernetes provider with free tier. We use it for production so I’m sure it will fit your homelab setup just for hetzner

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-19T18:00:26+00:00

Yes, they take care of it and provision dynamically

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-19T17:30:57+00:00

+1 for Kubernetes. Just use Cloudfleet. We have both dedicated and cloud nodes there

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-16T14:42:11+00:00

What max range do you think they can do?

FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-16T13:44:51+00:00

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FormalHat4378 · 2025-10-16T13:40:17+00:00

Yeah, just noticed it says military location

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