Support GCE Spot Instances
geekflyer opened this issue · 2 comments
Description
Currently cirrus-ci supports GCE preemptible instances which is great.
However there's now also Spot VMs in GCP (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot), which is sort of an evolution of Preemptible instances, incl. support for longer running workloads than 24h. See also the soft deprecation notice of preemptible instances here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible.
Would be great to add support for GCP spot VMs - it's probably just 1 flag?
When I initially saw Spot instances I though it just a rebranding but indeed there is slightly different API involved to create Spot instance vs Preemptible. Updated documentation in #1191 for gce_* instances and we also switched all our managed instances to Spot instances instead of Preemptible since Spot seems to be recommended now.
thanks for the quick improvement!