List of free Trials/Credit for Managed Kubernetes Services
- Google Cloud Platform (GKE)
- Description: $300 credit which can be used for a 3 month period from the account creation. There is no restriction on the resources and the number of nodes for creating a cluster.
- Extras: you can add Istio and Try Cloud Run (Knative)
- Requirements: a Credit Card is required for signing up, but you will not be charged if your credit runs out.
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/free/
- Microsoft Azure (AKS)
- Description: $200 credit which can be used for a 30 days period from the account creation. However, the Azure Kubernetes Service is free for AI and ML workloads which falls into the always free resource list.
- Requirements: a Credit Card is required for signing up, but you will not be charged if your credit runs out.
- Link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- IBM Cloud
- Description: Single worker node Kubernetes cluster along with container registry like other cloud providers. This is more than enough for a beginner to try the concepts of Kubernetes. Free cluster expires after 30 days.
- Link: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/
- Linode (LKE)
- Description: LKE $100 credit for a 2 month period from the account creation to use Linode infrastructure and services.
- Requirements: a Credit Card is required for signing up, but you will not be charged if your credit runs out.
- Link: https://www.linode.com/lp/brand-free-credit
- Alibaba Cloud
- Description: $300 credit which can be used for a 12 month period from the account creation. They also provide Kubernetes in the always free resource list.
- Link: https://www.alibabacloud.com/
- Redhat OpenShift
- Description: Single node PaaS over Kubernetes.It can be used for a trial period of 60 days in your RedHat account
- Link: https://www.openshift.com/try
- Katacoda
- Description: The most used platform for playing with Kubernetes. Different flavours of kubernetes clusters to choose, including a minikube version.
- Link: https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes
- CodeFresh
- Description: Leverages the Google Cloud Platform, provides $500 credit for trying out Kubernetes.
- Link: https://codefresh.io/google-cloud/
- Civo Cloud
- Description: $250 credit for a month period from the account creation to use Civo kubernetes and services.
- Requirements: a Credit Card is required for signing up, but you will not be charged if your credit runs out.
- Link: https://www.civo.com/signup
- Okteto Cloud
- Description: Managed Kubernetes service designed for developers. Free developer accounts come with 8GB of RAM, 4 CPUs and 5GB Disk space. The apps sleep after 24 hours of inactivity. You have access to a single namespace.
- Details: https://okteto.com/docs/cloud
- Requirements: a Github account is required for signing up.
- Link: https://cloud.okteto.com/
- Huawei Cloud
- Description: Register and get 1500 hours of free trial. Up to 10Gb available to download and store docker container images (Always free)
- Details: https://activity.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/free_packages/
- Requirements: A Credit Card is required for signing up
- Link: https://reg.huaweicloud.com/registerui/register.html/
- DigitalOcean
- Description: DigitalOcean provides 100$ trial credit for first 60days. This require a referral from existing users or use the below URL which is the official referral URL.
- Requirements: A Credit Card is required for signing up
- Link: https://m.do.co/c/8cce85e94a19
- Kubernautic
- Description: Rancher Shared or Dedicated as a Service to manage and run kubernetes either On-Prem or as a Cloudless service.
- Pricing: Forever Free/Free Trial/Paid Tier Available. Forever free plan includes a single user, shared rancher dashboard, spot namespaces, 1CPU, 1Gi Mem. While the Free trial plan includes 2 user, shared rancher dashboard, stateful namespaces, 2CPU, 2Gi Mem, 10GB storage.
- Link: https://kubernautic.com/
- Freebernetes Cloud Platform (FCP)
- Description: Short-lived Kubernetes cluster for educational purposes. Works on a crowdfunding model, so other limits may change over time. Initial restrictions: 6h TTL, 2CPU, 4Gi Mem, 10Gi PV, external IPv6 for control plane/workers ( jump container for IPv4-only users with
kubectl/helmtools) - Requirements: A valid email is required.
- Link: https://try-fcp.org/
- Description: Short-lived Kubernetes cluster for educational purposes. Works on a crowdfunding model, so other limits may change over time. Initial restrictions: 6h TTL, 2CPU, 4Gi Mem, 10Gi PV, external IPv6 for control plane/workers ( jump container for IPv4-only users with
- KraudCloud
- Description: Free kubernetes clusters with 32GB RAM during its 6 month beta phase.
- Requirements: A Github account is required for signing up and getting an invite.
- Link: https://kraudcloud.com/
- https://medium.com/techprimers/free-tiers-in-different-cloud-platforms-for-trying-out-kubernetes-2ccda3f296dc
- The Internet
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