#terraform-aws-modules (2020-01)

(this channel is for https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/)

Unfortunately no way to use spot here at the moment either: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-autoscaling/pull/86

@Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

We’re using SpotInst.com instead

Their blue ocean controller for kubernetes is far superior

Yeah but for the rest of us plebians still running ASGs, it’d be nice to get those open PR’s merged

oh, sorry! let me have @Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse) take a look

(spotinst.com is “free” - they only charge a % of savings)

we’ve talked with them and just decided to do it ourselves, but they’ve got a great business model and are doing cool stuff

are you using k8s?

EKS, yes, just starting to kickoff the migration from ECS to EKS and it’ll be slow. We’re using the terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks with spot instances for most of our workers

The brilliance with blue ocean is it knows (a) how much memory your cluster needs based on requested (b) how much cpu your cluster needs - so it can right size the spot instances in your cluster

but very often, the requested sources are set too high, so spotinst will then recommend how to rightsize your pods

this is why from a UX, we think it’s worth the investment.

Good points

(and they have a terraform provider)

(and the node pools are fully managed)