Switch from Cloud Run to an alternative (Compute Engine/Kubernetes/??) about algomart

[theothermattm]

I'm not sure that pursuing GCP specific options is the best idea if you're aiming for wide adoption in an open source project.
Though it might be heavy handed, I would consider just moving to a Kubernetes based setup which could be implemented on any cloud provider. @smonn and @juttayaya your thoughts.

[tylrw]

Hey, I just discovered this project. GKE Autopilot might be a reasonable option depending on the Cloud Run limitations you're having. Autopilot comes with some limitations as well.

There is an enable_autopilot argument on the Terraform cluster resource.

[smonn]

I'm not sure that pursuing GCP specific options is the best idea if you're aiming for wide adoption in an open source project. Though it might be heavy handed, I would consider just moving to a Kubernetes based setup which could be implemented on any cloud provider. @smonn and @juttayaya your thoughts.

@theothermattm Good point! We'll be going for Kubernetes to avoid vendor lock-in. The Terraform setup will be different no matter what, but as long as it can run in a Kubernetes environment I think we'll be in a good place.

[kevlarr]

Before committing to the overhaul, I'd like to at least verify that using GCS as a backing store for the CMS isn't also an issue. That is, we should make sure that we can use Directus locally but point to GCS rather than local disk storage.

[tylrw]

Thanks @kevlarr! Happy to help where I can. An issue I previously worked around was for cert-manager:

• cert-manager/cert-manager#3717 (comment)

Looks like a new Autopilot release addresses the above.

There could also be challenges with 3^rd party metrics:

• prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus#1105

Google provides a list of limitations here:

• https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview#limits

[kevlarr]

Awesome, thanks @rtwall! It's really helpful to get context like this before just diving in

[brandonaaskov]

If we find that this is a pain, we can also lean on Google Cloud Storage for this stuff. Asking a customer to encode video for the previews isn't asking too much IMO, especially if they're already selling a source video asset that they likely edited/created/exported.

[kevlarr]

@brandonaaskov Are you suggesting that they only upload the smaller preview through Directus and only link to the real one in the asset URL or something?

[kevlarr]

Welcome @rtwall! Thanks for the suggestion - any particular limitations with Autopilot that come to mind?