I am very excited to write this blog post. After several weeks of intensive work, we are pleased to announce an integration with Kubernetes Operations (kops), the easiest way to get a production-grade Kubernetes cluster up and running.
Starting today, Spotinst is an official ‘cloud provider’ in Kubernetes, and users can now create highly-available and highly-economical (pay less than $0.01 per CPU core hour!) with kops on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure in about 30 seconds.
Features
- Automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters.
- Automatic utilization of
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances,Google Preemptible VMsandMicrosoft Low-priority VMsas k8s nodes. - Deploys Highly Available (HA) Kubernetes Masters.
- Supports upgrading from kube-up.
- Command line autocompletion.
- Community supported!
UPDATE:Support for Gossip-based clusters!- This makes the process of setting up Kubernetes cluster using kops
DNS-free, the only change you need to do is add.localsuffix to your cluster name
- This makes the process of setting up Kubernetes cluster using kops
No more talking – let’s go straight to work.
Installation
After completing our installation guide, you should be able to see your cluster in the following places:
In our Spotinst console: a highly-available k8s cluster up and running! In parallel, we can observe that two Elastigroups have been created. One for the master and one for the nodes:
We can also observe that the nodes are spread across multiple instance types c3.large,c4.large,m4.large,m3.large and different Availability Zones us-east-1a,us-east-1b:
You should also be able to see your cluster in the Kubernetes console as follows:
That’s it. I hope you will find useful.
Next post in the series will be: splitting your k8s cluster across AWS and Google Cloud.
