How I Stopped Worrying About Costs and Learned to Love Kubernetes

Deploying a puny Hello World app on Kubernetes? Brace yourself. The meter's running even before your first visitor stumbles in—over $150/month just for the control plane. Solution? Enter Rackspace Spot. Slash that tab by up to 76% using bargain-basement servers that practically pay you at $0.001/hour, plus a free control plane. Suddenly, Kubernetes doesn’t look so pricey.