We’re running drone-autoscaler to auto-provision our build runners on ec2.
Mostly it’s working well but I’d like to see a way of making autoscaler terminate the older instances - it seems to always terminate more recent instances when scaling down, which means that older instances will be kept:
It would be good if there was a “max-age” setting that would have autoscaler terminate idle instances that are older than some limit.
Hello there,
This will be a feature request and you can raise it here : https://trello.com/b/ttae5E5o/drone
Regards,
Drone Support
Thanks! It seems I don’t have permissions to create anything on that Trello board.
It seems I don’t have permissions to create anything on that Trello board.
we don’t accept third party contributions to our roadmap / trello board, however, this particular feature request is already on our roadmap. See https://trello.com/c/3t7w8tmN/53-support-for-server-ttl-to-force-terminate-instances
it seems to always terminate more recent instances when scaling down, which means that older instances will be kept:
note that Drone does sort instances by creation date to remove older runners first, however, it will only remove idle runners. The system will not mark a busy runner for termination because it would result in killing a build while it is running. This means if you have an older runner that is busy, and a newer runner that is idle, the newer runner would be marked for termination.
