Spot Scale and Sizing Guidelines

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These are broad guidelines for scale and sizing of your Rackspace Spot deployments. Please note that while we generally expect to achieve these scale and performance metrics, these are not guaranteed.

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Spot Control Plane Scale

Spot Control Plane Parameter

Current Scale

Number of Cloudspaces

25

Aggregate servers across all Cloudspaces

1000

Concurrent servers provisioned across all Cloudspaces

50

Spot Kubernetes Control Plane Scale

Kubernetes (Hosted) Control Plane

Specifications

Free Kubernetes Control Plane: apiserver & etcd

1 apiserver, 1 etcd

Free Kubernetes Control Plane:

Nodes in a Cloudspace

50

Free Kubernetes Control Plane: Scales with number of nodes

Yes, upto 50 nodes

Highly available Kubernetes Control Plane: apiserver & etcd

5 apiservers, 3 etcd

Highly available Kubernetes Control Plane:

Nodes in a Cloudspace

150

Highly available Kubernetes Control Plane: Scales with number of nodes

Yes, upto 150 nodes

Spot Server Provisioning Performance

Spot Server Provisioning Parameters

Specifications

Time to deploy Kubernetes control plane

~1 minute

Time to pre-empt and reassign servers following an auction

6 minutes notice period + time to provision server

Time to provision servers (A) Rackspace undercloud time to provision servers

5-30 minutes (under-cloud v1)

3-10 minutes (under-cloud v2)

Time to provision servers (B) Spot time to attach provisioned servers to Kubernetes control plane

5-15 minutes