On: Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes (2021)

[dekhn]

Can you use SLURM to schedule services? IE, long-running not-batch-jobs that expose network ports (often multiple)? That's what k8s (and borg) really are- service schedules, not batch schedulers.

[prpl → dekhn]

You can schedule jobs without a wall clock time if the admin didn’t disable it, but it’s awkward. That will make scheduling MPI jobs hard/impossible.

[__turbobrew__ → dekhn]

Run your batch jobs in slurm and your deployments in gke.

[dekhn → __turbobrew__]

I can run batch jobs in GKE. It looks like SLURM doesn't have a way to handle endpoints (IE, a port manager) so I agree, deployments will have to stay in something like k8s.