I want to start and stop a Kubernetes on GCP using Scheduler. How can we reduce the number of nodes to zero using a corn scheduler at a particular time and again change it back to the required number when using a cron expression?
It seems GKE Auto Scale Down for Fun and Profit has everything you need except vise-versa part to restore back 3 nodes. But Im sure you'll manage it. Tested for you, this is work solution.
gcloud beta scheduler jobs list
ID LOCATION SCHEDULE (TZ) TARGET_TYPE STATE
gke-cluster-auto-scale-down australia-southeast1 0 */1 * * * (Australia/Melbourne) HTTP ENABLED
1) enable Google Cloud Scheduler (GKE already enabled):
gcloud services enable cloudscheduler.googleapis.com
2)spin test cluster:
gcloud beta container clusters create vvr \
--zone="australia-southeast1-a" \
--machine-type="n1-standard-1" \
--num-nodes="3" \
--preemptible \
--no-user-output-enabled \
gcloud iam roles create gke.scheduler \
--project ${PROJECT_ID} \
--title "Role GKE Scheduler" \
--description "Managing the scaling of GKE nodes" \
--permissions container.clusters.update \
--stage GA
gcloud beta iam service-accounts create gke-scheduler \
--description "managing scheduling of worker nodes on gke" \
--display-name "gke-scheduler"
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding ${PROJECT_ID} \
--member serviceAccount:gke-scheduler@${PROJECT_ID}.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
--role projects/${PROJECT_ID}/roles/gke.scheduler
"nodeCount":0
cloud beta scheduler jobs create http gke-cluster-auto-scale-down \
--schedule "0 */1 * * *" \
--uri=https://container.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/${PROJECT_ID}/zones/australia-southeast1-a/clusters/vvr/nodePools/default-pool/setSize \
--message-body '{"nodeCount":0}' \
--time-zone=Australia/Melbourne \
--oauth-service-account-email gke-scheduler@${PROJECT_ID}.iam.gserviceaccount.com
Good luck