You can create your Kubernetes nodes as preemptible instances. Preemptible instances last no more than 24 hours and are deleted by GCP. These instances are priced lower than regular VM instances and offer the same configuration, making them an attractive option for running high resource consuming batch jobs. With Kubernetes, these jobs can be distributed across containers and scheduled to run on preemptible instances.
Preemptible instances
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