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Cristian Petrescu-Prahova
Cristian Petrescu-Prahova

Reputation: 157

GKE preemptible pools

We run a number of batch jobs daily. For cost reasons we run mostly on preemptible VMs, via an in-house VM management system configured to use preemptible VMs first and failover to regular VMs.

We'd like to use GKE + pools of preemptible VMs instead. To the best of my knowledge, this is currently unsupported. Does it happen to be on the product roadmap?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 593

Answers (1)

Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey

Reputation: 18210

Support for creating a cluster or node pool with preemptible VMs was just added to Google Container Engine (see the release notes from October 17th).

Run gcloud beta container node-pools create --preemptible NAME to create a new node pool with preemptible VMs.

Upvotes: 8

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