Cloud cost management series: Overspending in the cloud Managing spot instance clusters on Kubernetes with Hollowtrees Monitor AWS spot instance terminations Diversifying AWS auto-scaling groups Draining Kubernetes nodes Cluster recommender Cloud instance type and price information as a service Kubernetes was designed in such a way as to be fault tolerant of worker node failures. If a node goes missing because of a hardware problem, a cloud infrastructure problem, or if Kubernetes simply ceases to receive heartbeat messages from a node for any reason, the Kubernetes control plane is clever enough to handle it.