Spot instances

Before you start Prepare your environment for this section.

$ prepare-environment fundamentals/mng/spot

All of our existing compute nodes are using On-Demand capacity. However, there are multiple “purchase options” available to EC2 customers for running their EKS workloads, including Spot Instances.

In this lab we’ll look at how we can leverage EC2 Spot capacity with EKS managed node groups.