I am trying to setup cheapest development environment for Azure Kubernetes journey. I am provisioing this service in East US so all prices are in USD;
az aks create –name myakscluster
This will bring up Standard_DS2_v2 node that cost $106.58 at the time of this writing.
I like to drop it a smaller VM. AKS specification are that every AKS cluster will have at minimum one node pool and node pool require a VM SKU of at least 2 vCPUs and 4GM memory. The cheapest VM at that configuration is Standard_B2s that cost about $30.37.
–node-count 1 –node-vm-size Standard_B2s
AKS uses a Load Balancer and by default the Standard sku @ ~$30/month will be selected. The Basic sku is free, but the Load Balancer sku cannot be changed once the cluster has been created, so we must set it at time of creation.
–load-balancer-sku basic
Disk size defaults to 100GB which for this VM is a Premium SSD p10 @ 19.79/month. Minimum disk size is 30 so we’ll choose the 32GB p4 @ $1.54/month.
The cheapest cluster power shell is;
az aks create -n myakscluster \
–node-count 1 \
–node-vm-size Standard_B2s \
–load-balancer-sku basic \
–node-osdisk-size 32
Hope, this will save some money on compute, storage and networking during development.
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