Create cluster

Create a cluster in your In-VPC workspace to run queries on the EKS compute Karpenter provisions.

A cluster is the compute that runs your queries. In an In-VPC deployment, cluster nodes are provisioned by Karpenter on the workspace NodePool you created during deployment, and scale to zero when idle.

Create a cluster

1. Open the workspace's Compute Plane and go to the Clusters section.
2. Select Create Cluster and enter a Cluster Name (must start with a letter and end with a letter or digit; letters (upper or lower case), numbers, and hyphens, 3–30 characters; case-sensitive).
3. Select a Version - the Cluster Runtime (CRT) - and a Cluster Size.
4. Configure autoscaling, QPS, and caching as needed, then create the cluster.

The cluster's pods schedule onto the workspace NodePool (tainted with workspace-name=<workspace>), and Karpenter launches nodes to match. For the full set of cluster options, see Create and manage clusters and Cluster sizing and scaling.

CloudPrem-specific operations

Operating clusters in an In-VPC deployment - inspecting pods, NodePools, and scaling behavior with kubectl - is covered in CloudPrem cluster operations.

Next

Continue to Run your first query.