Enable Spot Instances

Warning

Spot instances are not recommended for running workloads that are not fault tolerant.

Note

Spot works well if you need to cut down costs for your clusters. See minimising costs.

Cluster setup with minimal costs

Create a cluster with Spot instances, HDD disk and e2-medium disk type.

cluster:
  gcp:
    additionalNodePools:
      - name: "spot-pool"
        machineType: "e2-medium"
        diskType: "pd-standard"
        minCount: 0
        maxCount: 5
        spot: true

# Nodepool with 5 VMs using standard will cost $162 per month

# Nodepool with 5 VMs using spot nodes will cost $61 per month