The proper way to stop and start a cluster

[Asanka Sanjaya Herath]

Hi All,

We have up and running gcloud container cluster(Kuberentes based) which hosts set of microservices and some other programs.  That is our production cluster. Now we are trying to duplicate the same cluster to set up a staging environment. But we don't need that second cluster up and running 24x7 because of cost-cutting concerns. I couldn't find any gcloud command to suspend the cluster and start it later. Is there a proper way that we can achieve this goal? Any help is appreciated.

[Paolo Mainardi]

You can't stop the cluster, but you can:

1) Set the node autoscaling min-node to 0, this is true starting with kube 1.7 (https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/cluster-autoscaler#minimum_and_maximum_node_pool_size)

2) Set all the deployments to scale to 0

This will terminate any running VMs and you basically pay nothing.

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

You can also set your cluster size to zero as explained here by using “gcloud container clusters resize $CLUSTER_NAME --size=0”

[Asanka Sanjaya Herath]

Thanks, Paolo and Carlos, that was good information. I'll change the number of cluster instances to 0 when it is not being used.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:57 PM, 'Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)' via gce-discussion <gce-dis...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

You can also set your cluster size to zero as explained here by using “gcloud container clusters resize $CLUSTER_NAME --size=0”

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Thanks,

Asanka Sanjaya Herath

Software Engineer | Zone24x7