What to make of the Google Cloud Container announcement

[TheLoneCuber]

I’ve saw seen a flurry of tweets about the Google Cloud Contain Engine announcement, especially in reference to Docker. The Container Engine is clearly labelled “Alpha”, but apart from that label, is it Discourse-ready?

• TechCrunch: Google Launches Managed Service For Running Docker-Based Applications On Its Cloud Platform
• InfoWorld: Google does Docker better with Kubernetes-powered Container Engine
• ZDNet: Google Cloud Platform prices slashed again, intros Container Engine for Docker

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

is it Discourse-ready?

Only one way to find out

[downey (Michael Downey)]

This seems to work fine. Spun up a single-node Kubernetes container, n1-highcpu-2 (2 vCPU, 1.8 GB memory), followed the steps at https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md starting with “Install Discourse” and the site was up and running as normal.

Compute Engine still seems significantly more expensive than DigitalOcean, though, sadly.