Yep. I like the idea of spinning up a VM for any random crazy idea without having a tollbooth in my way. I have a Dell 740xd racked in Santa Clara.
Email, owncloud, about 2 or 3 dozen websites of personal or quasi-project status, and a few dozen other tinkerings.
Amusingly most of my clients have me doing AWS work these days, so my on-prem experience brings me nothing professionally anymore.
I do enjoy writing apps that "baseload" on my colo box and can burst into the cloud as needed. I feel like that's where everyone is headed when the cloud fees get thought about a little harder.
You make a good point, with k8 the entire base layer is abstracted away to the point devs aren’t building to linux they’re building to k8 with single process containers. But I guess mileage may vary, you still learn a great deal self hosting typically.
Email, owncloud, about 2 or 3 dozen websites of personal or quasi-project status, and a few dozen other tinkerings.
Amusingly most of my clients have me doing AWS work these days, so my on-prem experience brings me nothing professionally anymore.
I do enjoy writing apps that "baseload" on my colo box and can burst into the cloud as needed. I feel like that's where everyone is headed when the cloud fees get thought about a little harder.