Inactivate AWS EKS master?

9/5/2019

is there a way to 'inactivate' an EKS cluster? I'm aware that the worker can be suspended (EC2) but it would be nice to also suspend the EKS master since we will only use the cluster for dev/test and it would be great to be able to switch it off when not needed (to safe cost of 0.20 $ / hour). There is the alternative to use kops (which would create a master node as EC2 instance) but maybe there is a way with EKS.

cheers

-- y4nnick
amazon-ec2
amazon-eks
kops
kubernetes

1 Answer

9/5/2019

Currently, EKS master nodes cannot be scaled down to 0. There is an open request for the same. https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/318

-- dassum
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