I' m developing a hobby project which has;
The last two applications are containerized and I can run the docker image locally. I want this hosted (in the cloud) so I can show off my work and get experience with something like Kubernetes or any other orchestration tool. What I'm looking for is a non-enterprise hosting platform which is free or a small monthly fee. I have an Azure developer budget but when I try the smallest Azure Kubernetes Service it still is going to cost me a lot.
Who has some advice on which hosting platform is working for their hobby projects?
GCP has a fairly generous free tier, you could launch a 1-node cluster for free. It only has about a half a gigabyte of RAM though, you may find running both your app and SQL Server challenging. Heroku does offer a free-tier for their SQL database but it's Postgres not SQL Server.
What I ended up to do is just don't use K8s but stick to a container instance in Azure. I know it's a bit lame because I started out with K8s on my mind. Still, now I have got a relative cost-efficient solution with a private registry and two containers for under 10 euro.