As an admin creating a cluster or node pool, I want to make an informed decision when selecting a machine type to use for nodes.
Details
Currently we offer all available instance types / machine types / VM sizes in a flat list/table. The large number of types to choose from makes this list hard to use.
All cloud providers we deal with currently have a notion of a category, family, or group each type belongs to. Representing this grouping in our selection widget would simplify the selection.
Provider taxonomies
Google Cloud differentiates between "machine families", which fall into the following schema:
User story
Details
Currently we offer all available instance types / machine types / VM sizes in a flat list/table. The large number of types to choose from makes this list hard to use.
All cloud providers we deal with currently have a notion of a category, family, or group each type belongs to. Representing this grouping in our selection widget would simplify the selection.
Provider taxonomies
Google Cloud differentiates between "machine families", which fall into the following schema:
Azure presents the following system:
AWS EC2: