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Getting Started

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To support the community's growth, the following non-sensitive data will be uploaded to the CloudPilot AI server when the Karpenter AlibabaCloud Provider is installed:

  • The instance types of nodes at component launch.
  • The cluster's resource usage (CPU/Memory).
  • The cluster's resource requests (CPU/Memory).
  • The cluster's resource capacity (CPU/Memory).
  • The cluster's interruption events for spot instances.
  • The cluster's ID as the unique identifier.

This data-sharing feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it by setting the --telemetry-share=false flag or the environment variable TELEMETRY_SHARE=false.

Karpenter is an open-source node lifecycle management project built for Kubernetes. Adding Karpenter to a Kubernetes cluster can dramatically improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on that cluster. Karpenter works by:

  • Watching for pods that the Kubernetes scheduler has marked as unschedulable.
  • Evaluating scheduling constraints (resource requests, nodeselectors, affinities, tolerations, and topology spread constraints) requested by the pods.
  • Provisioning nodes that meet the requirements of the pods.
  • Disrupting the nodes when the nodes are no longer needed.

Learn more about Karpenter and how to get started below.