Garvin Pang

> Have we considered smarter approaches here where the cloudprovider passes down some of this information based on the known startup time of instance types? It may be tougher to...

Thanks for the comment! Let me add some of those into the doc

Alternatively, it could just be a simple setting `useSpot` to indicate user intents to use spot to prevent the default path of Karpenter picking spot instances even if the user...

In this case we had a user that was using Karpenter to manage their cluster that didn't know by default Karpenter allows spot to be utilize even though they haven't...

Can someone provide the kubelet logs from a node that fails to register?

One thing to note (not sure if this is the issue) but on 0.37+ version of Karpenter there is a new readiness check on EC2NodeClass CRD. Was this updated? `Karpenter...

Will take a look

do you have a matching toleration ``` taints: - key: example.com/taint-ep-base effect: NoSchedule ``` Can you show the full pod spec

I think https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/karpenter/blob/3087cce35ccd741461110028ed16f15434933c06/pkg/controllers/disruption/controller.go#L180 would have picked up "drift" as the reason and https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/karpenter/blob/3087cce35ccd741461110028ed16f15434933c06/pkg/controllers/disruption/drift.go#L77 empty would have placed it in to Drift budget which we have none of.

Would love this feature. We were planning on contributing something similar