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I have a kuberbetes cluster running in EKS. We use it for testing periodically but mainly it just sits there with all its nodes and costing us.

I am looking for the most elegant way to turn it off so it does not incur costs and turn it back on when needed.

My thought; use eksctl to scale the node group to 0 instances and change it back up when needed.

Is there a more “elegant” way to do this?

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  • Scaling groups to 0 is really the only way, but you will still continue to pay for the running control plane. You may be better off from a cost perspective to use EKS fargate if your pods/containers don't run for most of the day
    – jordanm
    Commented Apr 29, 2022 at 14:58
  • That’s fine. The bulk of the costs are from the nodes
    – JasonGenX
    Commented Apr 29, 2022 at 14:59

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