William Denniss • 2/24/2021

Provisioning spare capacity in GKE Autopilot with placeholder balloon pods

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This technical article details a method for provisioning spare compute capacity in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot clusters. It describes how to deploy low-priority 'balloon' or placeholder pods that reserve resources, allowing new workloads to start immediately by evicting these placeholders. The guide includes YAML configurations for PriorityClass and Deployment to implement this pattern, improving scheduling speed during bursts.

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