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Could you please share the details of your setup ? I am not familiar with Google Cloud but being able to scale up cheaply with pre-emptible instances sounds gre

• flossball 8y ago
  It is just about six commands to create all the pools. gcloud container clusters create flk1 \ --cluster-version 1.XX? \ #put your version here --machine-type g1-small \ --disk-size 20 \ --preemptible \ --enable-autoupgrade \ --num-nodes 1 \ --network flk1 \ --scopes storage-rw,compute-rw,monitoring,logging-write gcloud config set container/cluster flk1 gcloud container clusters get-credentials flk1 gcloud container node-pools create small-pool-p \ --cluster=flk1 \ --machine-type n1-standard-1 \ --disk-size 20 \ --preemptible \ --enable-autoupgrade \ --num-nodes 1 gcloud container node-pools create small-pool \ --cluster=flk1 \ --machine-type n1-standard-1 \ --disk-size 20 \ --enable-autoupgrade \ --num-nodes 2 I remove the original small node once the pools are created. And then other pools for higher usage nodes.. The smallest cluster I have is about $75/month. Pre-emptible nodes seem to recover quite well and I always keep at least one container per pod/etc. on the non-pre-emptible just in case.
• minimaxir 8y ago
  It works very well and has controls so you don't schedule important workloads on preemptable instances: https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-preemptible-vms-to-cut-kubernetes-engine-bills-in-half-de2481b8e814 https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-preemptible-vms-to-cut...