Hi, I am trying to create a regional cluster that spread only on 2 zones something that can be done with : gcloud container clusters create manualtest --machine-type n1-standard-4 --num-nodes 1 --enable-autoscaling --max-nodes 4 --min-nodes 0 --region europe-west3 --node-locations europe-west3-a,europe-west3-b when doing so with pulumi (TypeScript) it spreads on the 3 zones either default nodepool or with "removeDefaultNodePool" a separate one.

are you sure you’re creating a zonal cluster with additional zone instead of regional cluster?

i do not want a zonal (or multi zonal cluster) i want a regional one with node pool only in certains zones here is a sample

const masterVersion="1.20.10-gke.301"

const nodesVersion="1.20.10-gke.301"

const masterMachineType="e2-medium"

const nodeMachineType="n1-standard-4"

const region = "europe-west3"

export const zones = [region + "-a", region + "-b"]

// Create the GKE cluster and export it.

export const k8sCluster = new gcp.container.Cluster("gke-cluster", {

minMasterVersion: masterVersion,

removeDefaultNodePool: false,

location: region,

nodePools:[{

initialNodeCount: 1,

nodeLocations: zones,

nodeConfig: {

preemptible: true,

machineType: masterMachineType,

oauthScopes: [

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute>",

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only>",

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write>",

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring>",

],

},

version: masterVersion,

management: {

autoRepair: true,

autoUpgrade: true,

},

}],

});

`const nodePool = new gcp.container.NodePool(

worker-node-pool

, {`

cluster: k8sCluster.name,

autoscaling: {

minNodeCount: 1,

maxNodeCount: 4,

},

location: k8sCluster.location,

nodeLocations: zones,

nodeConfig: {

preemptible: true,

machineType: nodeMachineType,

oauthScopes: [

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute>",

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only>",

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write>",

"<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring>",

],

},

version: nodesVersion,

management: {

autoRepair: true,

autoUpgrade: false,

},

}, {

dependsOn: [k8sCluster],

});

Got it. I actually thought it’s not possible to have a regional cluster with node pools in only 2 zones but I had a quick look at the docs and indeed, it should be possible.

yes , i totally understand tfor contol plane to keep Qurom but for worker nodes it whould be possible (and necessary if you add autoscaling in the loop 😉 )

Sorry, I didn’t have time to look into this but I remember about this thread. I’ll get back to you when I have some news.

no problem, it was to be sure the thread was not forgotten. Thanks