Create Elastic Node Pool

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To learn about Elastic Node Pools and the provider/consumer model, see Elastic Node Pools.

An Elastic Node Pool creates virtual Kubernetes worker nodes from an Elastic Quota and joins them to a Cluster.

Prerequisites

• An Elastic Quota allocated to your organization
• A Cluster to join the virtual nodes to

Create a Node Pool

1. Navigate to your Cluster → Elastic Node Pools → Create Elastic Node Pool
2. Configure the properties:

Property	Description	Required
Name	A unique name for this Node Pool (cannot be changed later)	Yes
Elastic Quota	The Share to draw resources from (cannot be changed later)	Yes
Kubernetes Version	The Kubernetes version for the virtual nodes	Yes
Node Count	Number of virtual worker nodes	Yes
vCPUs	vCPUs per node	Yes
Memory (MB)	Memory per node in MB	Yes
Disk (GB)	Disk space per node in GB	Yes

3. Click Roll out

The total resource consumption (node count × node shape) must fit within the Quota's remaining capacity. Monitor the operation progress — once the Node Pool is ready, the virtual nodes appear as worker nodes in your Cluster.

Terraform

Reference

# create an elastic node pool consuming the quota
resource "meltcloud_elastic_node_pool" "example" {
  cluster_id       = meltcloud_cluster.example.id
  elastic_quota_id = data.meltcloud_elastic_quota.existing.id

  name       = "nodepool1"
  version    = "1.35"
  node_count = 1

  node_config {
    vcpus      = 4
    memory_mib = 2048
    disk_gib   = 20
  }
}