Adding documentation on google cloud cost
@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ investigated).
{% elif cookiecutter.provider == 'gcp' %}
+Google Cloud also provides a compelling offering for QHub. Since May
+2020 they started charging a base rate of $70/month for each running
+kubernetes cluster. However, they make up for the fact with their
+great support for auto-scaling groups. They are the only provider to
+support auto-scaling a nodegroup to 0 workers at the moment.
+
+The default provisioned setup used `n1-standard-2` which cost around $40/month.
+
+ - general pool :: min 1 $40 <-> max 1 $40
+ - user pool :: min 0 <-> max 4 $160
+ - worker pool :: min 0 <-> max 5 $200
+
+TODO: talk about cost of storage and load balancer (not yet
+investigated).
+
{% endif %}
# Autoscaling
@@ -37,5 +52,9 @@ node group.
{% elif cookiecutter.provider == 'gcp' %}
+Google cloud has the best support for auto scaling groups. Most
+importantly they support scaling down to 0 nodes for a given
+nodegroup.
+
{% endif %}
