SREcon23 Asia/Pacific - Lessons Learned Running GKE Clusters on Spot Instances

Lessons Learned Running GKE Clusters on Spot Instances.

Olga Mirensky, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, ANZx

Reducing cloud costs is one of the major concerns for tech companies today. One of the most cost effective ways to save on compute is to utilise Spot provisioning model. All major cloud vendors offer Spot Instances with up to 91% discount compared to on-demand prices and it’s tightly integrated in the respective vendor’s ecosystem, in particular in managed Kubernetes services like GKE, …

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