Run Autoscaler with GPU instances on GCP

Drone Support
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Hello,
I am trying to get running Drone Autoscaler (DA) on GCP cloud (I am following docs) which would launch agents on the specific instance type. So far I understood that the Autoscaler can run on any type of VM and then it launches its own instances with agents…

  • do I have to create the GCP cloud separately from DA or does DA creates it on its start
  • if DA manages the cloud, how can I specify the instance type I want to run the agent on, I found argument DRONE_GOOGLE_MACHINE_TYPE but this, so far I know, does not specify if GPU is included
  • if above, how can specify the agent instances will be preemptive (even it is not the recommended by Drone due to unexpected termination)

AM am sorry for these trivial questions, but I did not find it in docs nor in the forum…

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Hello there,

Kindly let us know on what instance CPU/GPU are you looking to provide as for the GCP there are Machine Types which you can specify once you start the Drone autoscaler on the GCP docs.
Machine Type

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Hello, I want to use quite a small CPU/RAM resource-demanding (2 CPU cores and 8GB RAM) with mounted two T4 graphic cards. So the base instance type could be n1-standard-2 but I don’t know how to add GPUs to the specification, somewhere I found also nvidia-tesla-t4 but it does not specify nb or mounted GPUs either…

Update: would the GPU setting be part of https://autoscale.drone.io/configure/cloud-init