Operations & Cost
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This section covers day-to-day operations of hybrid clusters. It guides Mixed Mode workload placement, configuration validation automation, the observability stack, upgrades and lifecycle management, and cost optimization leveraging the tiered vCPU-hour billing structure.
Operations and Cost OptimizationMixed Mode placement strategy, Cluster Insights and nodeadm debug validation, monitoring stack, cost reduction through workload placement and node lifetime managementUpgrades & Lifecycle ManagementThe nodeadm upgrade 4-phase process, mandatory manual cordon/drain, handling SSM signing key expiration (1.0.19+), air-gapped private mirror configuration, upgrade runbookObservability IntegrationEKS configuration insights self-diagnosis, CloudWatch Container Insights and GPU metric integration, Cilium Hubble-based eBPF dashboard, Network Flow Monitor applicability analysis