Autoscaling cannot be disabled

[nixsticks]

It appears that users must either specify min_node_count and max_node_count or have them default to 1 and 100; the autoscaling block is always created. Is this by design, or might we in future be able to specify a static node count and disable autoscaling?

[morgante]

Autoscaling is our best practice by default - do you have a use case where specifying max_node_count isn't sufficient?

[nixsticks]

Hi @morgante! That's my current workaround, yes -- but one use case where it's insufficient is where we want to freeze the current nodepool at zero without additional commands, and prevent it from spinning up new nodes, since max_node_count must be at least 1.

[morgante]

Got it - unfortunately it's tough to have a conditional block in Terraform. If this is a major issue, could you file a provider bug requesting a disabled/enabled flag on the autoscaling block? If there is one, we'd be happy to add it to the module.

[aaron-lane]

Hi @nixsticks. Would you like to proceed with an issue on the Google provider or can we close this issue?

[nixsticks]

Hey @aaron-lane , sorry I didn't follow up on this! We've managed to work around it for now, so no need to file a provider bug / add to the module, I think.

[morgante]

FYI we are now going to look at doing this with Terraform 0.12. See #249.