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Specifying the Pod Type

Scenario

CCE Autopilot clusters allow you to specify the pod types.

  • General-computing: This type is suitable for customers who have high requirements on computing performance and focus on the scale and stability of compute. Intel CPUs are used to provide compute.
  • General-computing-lite: provides cost-effective compute with comparable performance.

The prices of different pod types vary. For details, see Unit Prices in Pay-per-Use Billing. This section describes how to select a pod type.

Constraints

  • The cluster version must be 1.28.8-r0, 1.31.4-r0, or later. If the cluster version does not meet the requirements, you need to upgrade the cluster. For details, see Upgrading a Cluster.
  • General-computing-lite pods are supported in some regions. View the regions where general-computing-lite pods are supported on the console.

Specifying the Pod Type

In a CCE Autopilot cluster, you can specify the pod type through workload annotations by using either the console or kubectl.

The following are operations for you to specify the pod type on the console. For details about other parameters, see Creating a Workload.

  1. On the CCE console, click the cluster name to access the Overview page of the cluster console.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose Workloads.

    • To specify the pod type for a new workload, select the workload type and click Create Workload in the upper right corner of the page.
    • To specify the pod type for an existing workload, locate the workload and click Upgrade in the Operation column.

  3. In the Basic Info area, select General-computing-lite.

    Figure 1 Specifying the pod type

  4. Configure other workload parameters and click Create Workload or Upgrade Workload. If the workload status changes to Running, the configuration is successful.

The following are operations for you to specify the pod type using kubectl. For details about other parameters, see Creating a Workload.

Command line operations are required. You can perform related operations in either of the following ways:

  • Use the command line tool in the cluster. The kubectl commands have been configured for the command line tool, which has been connected to the cluster.
  • Log in to an ECS that is in the same VPC as the cluster, and access the cluster using kubectl by following the instructions in Connecting to a Cluster Using kubectl.

Create a workload and specify the pod type.

  1. Create a YAML file for creating a workload. In this example, the file name is instance-test.yaml. You can change it as needed. 
    vim instance-test.yaml

    After editing the file, press Esc to exit editing mode and enter :wq to save the file. The file content is as follows:

    apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: instance-test     # Workload name
spec:
  replicas: 1    # Number of pods
  selector:
    matchLabels: # Selector for selecting resources with specific labels
      app: nginx  
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:     # Labels
        app: nginx
      annotations:
        resource.cce.io/instance-type: general-computing-lite
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: nginx:latest   # {Image name}:{Image tag}
        name: nginx
      imagePullSecrets:
      - name: default-secret

    resource.cce.io/instance-type specifies the pod type. The options are as follows:

    • general-computing
    • general-computing-lite

    If no annotation is not added, general-computing is used by default.

  2. Create a workload. 
    kubectl create -f instance-test.yaml
  3. View the workload status. 
    kubectl get deployment

    If READY is 1/1 in the command output, the workload has been created.

    NAME            READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
instance-test    1/1     1            1           59s

Specify the pod type for an existing workload.

  1. Modify the YAML file of the workload and add the resource.cce.io/instance-type annotation. The following uses a Deployment named instance-test as an example. 
    kubectl edit deployment instance-test

    Add the resource.cce.io/instance-type annotation for annotations. Press Esc to exit editing mode and enter :wq to save the file.

    template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      labels:
        app: nginx
      annotations:
        resource.cce.io/instance-type: general-computing-lite

    resource.cce.io/instance-type specifies the pod type. The options are as follows:

    • general-computing
    • general-computing-lite
  2. View the workload status. 
    kubectl get deployment

    If READY is 1/1 in the command output, the workload has been created.

    NAME            READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
instance-test    1/1     1            1           59s

Reference

Parent Topic: Configuring a Workload