google_compute_autoscaler

A Compute Engine Autoscaler automatically adds or removes virtual machines from a managed instance group based on increases or decreases in load. This allows your applications to gracefully handle increases in traffic and reduces cost when the need for resources is lower. You just define the autoscaling policy and the autoscaler performs automatic scaling based on the measured load. For more information, see the official documentation and API

Example Usage

resource "google_compute_instance_template" "foobar" {
  name           = "foobar"
  machine_type   = "n1-standard-1"
  can_ip_forward = false

  tags = ["foo", "bar"]

  disk {
    source_image = "debian-cloud/debian-8"
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"
  }

  metadata {
    foo = "bar"
  }

  service_account {
    scopes = ["userinfo-email", "compute-ro", "storage-ro"]
  }
}

resource "google_compute_target_pool" "foobar" {
  name = "foobar"
}

resource "google_compute_instance_group_manager" "foobar" {
  name = "foobar"
  zone = "us-central1-f"

  instance_template  = "${google_compute_instance_template.foobar.self_link}"
  target_pools       = ["${google_compute_target_pool.foobar.self_link}"]
  base_instance_name = "foobar"
}

resource "google_compute_autoscaler" "foobar" {
  name   = "scaler"
  zone   = "us-central1-f"
  target = "${google_compute_instance_group_manager.foobar.self_link}"

  autoscaling_policy = {
    max_replicas    = 5
    min_replicas    = 1
    cooldown_period = 60

    cpu_utilization {
      target = 0.5
    }
  }
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• name - (Required) The name of the autoscaler.

• target - (Required) The full URL to the instance group manager whose size we control.

• zone - (Required) The zone of the target.

• autoscaling_policy - (Required) The parameters of the autoscaling algorithm. Structure is documented below.

• description - (Optional) An optional textual description of the instance group manager.

• project - (Optional) The ID of the project in which the resource belongs. If it is not provided, the provider project is used.

The autoscaling_policy block contains:

• max_replicas - (Required) The group will never be larger than this.

• min_replicas - (Required) The group will never be smaller than this.

• cooldown_period - (Optional) Period to wait between changes. This should be at least double the time your instances take to start up.

• cpu_utilization - (Optional) A policy that scales when the cluster's average CPU is above or below a given threshold. Structure is documented below.

• metric - (Optional) A policy that scales according to Google Cloud Monitoring metrics Structure is documented below.

• load_balancing_utilization - (Optional) A policy that scales when the load reaches a proportion of a limit defined in the HTTP load balancer. Structure is documented below.

The cpu_utilization block contains:

• target - The floating point threshold where CPU utilization should be. E.g. for 50% one would specify 0.5.

The metric block contains (more documentation here):

• name - The name of the Google Cloud Monitoring metric to follow, e.g. compute.googleapis.com/instance/network/received_bytes_count

• type - Either "cumulative", "delta", or "gauge".

• target - The desired metric value per instance. Must be a positive value.

The load_balancing_utilization block contains:

• target - The floating point threshold where load balancing utilization should be. E.g. if the load balancer's maxRatePerInstance is 10 requests per second (RPS) then setting this to 0.5 would cause the group to be scaled such that each instance receives 5 RPS.

Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are exported:

• self_link - The URL of the created resource.

Import

Autoscalers can be imported using the name, e.g.

$ terraform import google_compute_autoscaler.foobar scaler