Elastigroup & Kubernetes Operations (kops)

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 VMs and Microsoft Low-priority VMs as 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 .local suffix to your cluster name

No more talking – let’s go straight to work.

Installation

[alert type=”success”] For our most updated installation guide, visit our API documentation here [/alert]

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.