@hejeroaz

First: is kubernetes overkill for test environment? I read, that you need at least 2gb and 2
cores, which is 2x more resources then docker swarm. And also, 3 nodes (or 2) so whole
thing costs at least 2x more.

It really depends on what you’re trying to do within your test environment here. If you’re testing Kubernetes setup for a production deployment, then you need to determine what resources are required for each service to do determine how many nodes you need for production.

Otherwise, I would recommend setting up a local development Kubernetes cluster to determine how many nodes you need for production deployment. I would not use Digital Ocean for any type of long-term testing environment because these resources cost money. However, it’s OK for short-term testing where you standup a cluster, perform some testing, and tear it down.

Second thing: load balancer, now Im using treafik with docker swarm and it can be used also
with kubernetes as reverse proxy thanks to ingress. But, can I use it as load balancer too? I
read a lot of articles, but all the time there is Digitalocean load balancer (which costs too).

It’s overkill to use both Swarm and Kubernetes within the same production deployment. Just use Kubernetes with Treafik for your production deployment as this is the best container orchestrator out there. Furthermore, if you have multiple services, then using Traefik will save you money because you’ll only need a single load balancer. If you were not using an Ingress resource within your Kubernestes cluster for your services, then you would need a load-balancer for each service.

And finall thing: do you think that kubernetes is overkill for small - medium project?

Yes, Kubernetes probably overkill if your small/medium application isn’t broken up into many services, it’s a single monolithic application (i.e. 3 tier application), doesn’t have many users, and/or much traffic.

Well, I wish that the above information is helpful and I wish you all the best.

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Think different and code well,

-Conrad

@conradwt

thank you for your reply. Yes I wanted to say kubernetes with traefik as load balancer, but I wrote it really badly :) (english is not my main language, sorry)

But as I understand, its better to use Traefik / Nginx Ingress with DO load balancers, am I right?

For application type:

It is application with FE client (Vue), BE (NestJS), db (postgres) and admin (Vue). For users, really hard to say, for beginning we expect around thousand people, but with new features and growing community, it could be more than 30k. But its hard to say about daily peaks.

So Im in position, that I dont know how to start this new project. I heard that docker swarm mode is still good, but its future is not that bright, but kubernetes for one man army (Im developing whole app on my own) is little bit overkill.

So any advice is welcome :)