Karpenter for any Kubernetes Cluster

[manish-jangra]

Description

What problem are you trying to solve? We want to make use Karpenter in our ROSA && OSD Clusters for smart autoscaling. I haven't found any documenation of Karpenter usage for Kubernetes Clusters except EKS.

How important is this feature to you? Very important, will help us save cloud costs significantly.

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[leoryu]

You need to implemente your provider.

Actually, karpenter has implemented based kwok provider.

You can check https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/karpenter/tree/main/kwok .

[jwcesign]

For ROSA && OSD Clusters, they use the ec2 on aws to build their own control plane and data plane?

[manish-jangra]

@jwcesign yes, ROSA and OSD make use of ec2 instances for control plane and data plane nodes.

[manish-jangra]

@jwcesign did you happen to find anything in this regard?