Member-only story
In this short story, I will relate how I migrate my blog personal website from a classic VM instance to Google cloud using Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx.
One of my personal goal was also to have a cloud deployed website without spending any money.
Motivations
Long story made short, I have been using Docker on several projects since one year. I progressively got accustomed with the ease of deployment provided by Docker. The issue ? The day I have launched my blog (on February 2017),for time and cost reasons, I picked an VPS instance from OVH.
Why OVH ? Clearly it is one of the cheapest IAAS provider and quite popular there in France. I have been using it for several projects without any major issues.
OVH has an offer of public cloud OVH Public cloud. However the offer looked immature at that time both in documentation than on reviews. The second reason of my rejection is about cloud adotpion. A lot of experts are turned toward GCloud and AWS. Spending my efforts on OVH would not provide enough visibility at short term, in my job.
To better accompany my colleagues and customers to adopt the cloud , I have decided to eat my own dog food. And among my personal projects, I have decided to migrate first my blog.
And to switch my blog from OVH to Google Cloud (Container Engine).
