In a previous post I explained how Oracle Cloud's generous free tier allows you to run a 4-node Kubernetes cluster free of charge. However, there are one or two "gotchas" where there is the potential for costs to be encountered, one of which is during the
The OCI Always Free Tier also includes a load balancer that we can use with our cluster. There are various ways we could use this, and in this post I'll run you through two different ways you can do so as well as another option for exposing services.
OCI may not spring to mind if you want to host for free in the cloud. You might be surprised to see that OCI has a generous free tier that can be used to run a K8S cluster in the cloud for nothing. In this post I'll explain how you can get going with K8S and OCI.