4 articles tagged with GCP.
The control plane fee is the least interesting number. What separates managed Kubernetes providers is upgrade cadence, how much they run for you, and where the node bill lands.
GCP hands you one discount for free and sells you a deeper one. Here's how sustained and committed use actually stack, and how we size the commitment.
The three big clouds are closer on list price than the sales decks suggest. Where they actually diverge is discounts, egress, and Windows licensing.
OIDC federation between AWS, GCP, and CI providers let us delete every long-lived cloud credential we had. The setup, the gotchas, and the trust-relationship discipline.