I have been using KEDA for past few years. Automatically resizing the resource limits using VPA is a handy feature of AKS Automatic. Looks promising. Thanks for sharing this.
During the Preview, AKS Automatic uses the same pricing as Standard, but we do have plans for a modified approach when this GA's. More details on that part to come. I'd be curious about what you mean by view/operate nodes? The goal is to abstract the infra as much as possible and any node management activities are either automated or available via the API/CLI/Portal/etc. There are some differences between AKS Automatic and GKE Autopilot. The most notable is that you can actually switch back and forth between AKS Automatic and Standard. It's just a separate SKU/flag and not a completely different offering. This allows customers to get started with Automatic as they are learning. If they have any need for custom configurations, they can just switch
Thanks for the good question. Automatic doesn’t quite scale to zero, but pretty close. There is still a system node pool needed for some base AKS system containers. These are fairly small, but not entirely zero. Automatic does use Node Autoprovision (Karpenter) and this will deploy nodes on-demand and re-balance as needed which will also help reduce resources. AKS also supports stop/start which could help depending on your use case. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/start-stop-cluster
@@theakscommunity Thank you for the answer 🙏. So, it is not exactly like GKE Autopilot (At google cloud), if I understand good, here you always pay for provisioned machines? (Where at google only consumed ressources, not at machine scale). Very interesting! I believe Azure Container Apps is more like GKE Autopilot than Automatic.
@@MrBrouilles It’s different in that we allow you to switch between AKS Automatic and Standard. But you won’t actually pay for the provisioned VM’s when this is GA. In the preview, the billing model looks like Standard, but we’re working on the per pod/usage based model for GA. Stay tuned.
@@MrBrouilles To be clear, I don’t think ACA is really like GKE Autopilot. It’s not a Kubernetes solution, so it’s more like a PaaS offering for microservices than any of the managed K8s services like AKS and GKE
I have been using KEDA for past few years. Automatically resizing the resource limits using VPA is a handy feature of AKS Automatic. Looks promising. Thanks for sharing this.
amazing! Can I view and operate my k8s node? Is it charged by pod or by node? and what's the difference from GKE Autopilot?
During the Preview, AKS Automatic uses the same pricing as Standard, but we do have plans for a modified approach when this GA's. More details on that part to come.
I'd be curious about what you mean by view/operate nodes? The goal is to abstract the infra as much as possible and any node management activities are either automated or available via the API/CLI/Portal/etc.
There are some differences between AKS Automatic and GKE Autopilot. The most notable is that you can actually switch back and forth between AKS Automatic and Standard. It's just a separate SKU/flag and not a completely different offering. This allows customers to get started with Automatic as they are learning. If they have any need for custom configurations, they can just switch
Could you please make a vedio related to the Karpenter based on VM sizes.
Thanks for the feedback. Great idea on the Karpenter video. I’m reaching out to our PM on this to get something going!
Can you share the github repository for the aks-node-viewer?
We're working on this. Hopefully we will have it by GA
Can it scale to zero?
Thanks for the good question. Automatic doesn’t quite scale to zero, but pretty close. There is still a system node pool needed for some base AKS system containers. These are fairly small, but not entirely zero. Automatic does use Node Autoprovision (Karpenter) and this will deploy nodes on-demand and re-balance as needed which will also help reduce resources. AKS also supports stop/start which could help depending on your use case. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/start-stop-cluster
@@theakscommunity Thank you for the answer 🙏. So, it is not exactly like GKE Autopilot (At google cloud), if I understand good, here you always pay for provisioned machines? (Where at google only consumed ressources, not at machine scale). Very interesting! I believe Azure Container Apps is more like GKE Autopilot than Automatic.
@@MrBrouilles It’s different in that we allow you to switch between AKS Automatic and Standard. But you won’t actually pay for the provisioned VM’s when this is GA. In the preview, the billing model looks like Standard, but we’re working on the per pod/usage based model for GA. Stay tuned.
@@MrBrouilles To be clear, I don’t think ACA is really like GKE Autopilot. It’s not a Kubernetes solution, so it’s more like a PaaS offering for microservices than any of the managed K8s services like AKS and GKE
@@theakscommunity thank you for your explanations 🙏