Hey @witty-candle-66007 in my case I have a deployment (keikoproj/instance manager) that creates and maintains our eks node fleet. But in order for instance manager to start, it needs some amount of compute available to be scheduled. In our current process I provision the eks control plane, manually create a managed node group, once the pods are running I cordon the bootstrap nodes and reschedule the pods. This causes cluster auto scaler to create the required nodes on the instance groups. Then I can remove the managed node group