• scale-up is done by an auto-scaling up metric alarm that checks the queue size.
• Desirement to reduce auto-scaling AZ re-balancing which results in terminations. Therefore better to keep fleet balanced evenly across auto-scaling zones (AZ).
  • when using spot fleet, can ensure scale out in multiples of number of AZs.
• Set scaling policy per ASG
  • example: If alarm threshold is greater than 1 for greater than 60 seconds
    • Add 1 instance when JobsWaiting-grfn-job_worker-large is [1,10)
    • Add 10 instances when JobsWaiting-grfn-job_worker-large is [10,∞)

Optimization

• auto-scaling optimizations
  • currently public batch size 20-instance per 5-minute cool-down
  • cool-down default 300-seconds
• default internal batch rate of 10-instances per 30-seconds
• AWS ASG will increase our max batch rate to 100-instances per 30-seconds
• could manually set desired group size to 100
• logs indicate our queue_size metric alarm only firing every 10-minutes.
• recommendations
  • change cool-down to 1-minute
  • try batch size of 100 instances
  • set custom queue_size metric to check every 1-minute CloudWatch
• if make these recommended changes, then estimate 1000 instances will take 55-minutes to ramp up

self-termination

• need to suspend auto-scaling group AZ for load balancing scale down
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/US_SuspendResume.html
• command for ASG to turn off AZ rebalancing

• 
  

  aws autoscaling suspend-processes  --auto-scaling-group-name ${yourASGname} --scaling-processes AZRebalance

  
  

• This only needs to be ran once per ASG and will show up in the details tab of the ASG

References

AWS Autoscaling

• http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/autoscale_tut.html

AWS CloudWatch

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/WhatIsCloudWatch.html
• http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/cloudwatch_tut.html

boto: Python interface to Amazon Web Services

• https://github.com/boto/boto
• http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/
• http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/autoscale_tut.html

Code

• http://gitlab:8000/browser/trunk/HySDS/cluster_fab/aria-jobs-dev/test_autoscale.py