Feature #18596
Updated by Peter Amstutz about 2 years ago
Currently, in order to use preemptible instances, the operator needs to add InstanceTypes entries for all instance types they hope to use, with the Preemptible flag set, and possibly a lower price. This is tedious.
In most cases it would be much more convenient to have a config option (PreemptiblePriceFactor?) that automatically duplicates every non-preemptible InstanceTypes entry that does not already have a preemptible counterpart, with a max/bid price of PreemptiblePriceFactor × Price of the non-preemptible variant.
It will be the job of the go config loader to add the additional preemptible variants to instance types.