Add support for preemptible GCP instances

net/gce.sh

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ replicatorBootDiskSizeInGb=500
 fullNodeAdditionalDiskSizeInGb=
 externalNodes=false
 failOnValidatorBootupFailure=true
+preemptible=true
 
 publicNetwork=false
 letsEncryptDomainName=
@@ -146,6 +147,11 @@ Manage testnet instances
                     - Add an additional [number] GB SSD to all fullnodes to store the config directory.
                       If not set, config will be written to the boot disk by default.
                       Only supported on GCE.
+   --dedicated      - Use dedicated instances for additional full nodes
+                      (by default preemptible instances are used to reduce
+                      cost).  Note that the bootstrap leader, replicator,
+                      blockstreamer and client nodes are always dedicated.
+
  config-specific options:
    -P               - Use public network IP addresses (default: $publicNetwork)
 
@@ -180,6 +186,9 @@ while [[ -n $1 ]]; do
     elif [[ $1 == --allow-boot-failures ]]; then
       failOnValidatorBootupFailure=false
       shift
+    elif [[ $1 == --dedicated ]]; then
+      preemptible=false
+      shift
     else
       usage "Unknown long option: $1"
     fi
@@ -378,6 +387,8 @@ EOF
 
   buildSshOptions
 
+  cloud_RestartPreemptedInstances "$prefix"
+
   fetchPrivateKey() {
     declare nodeName
     declare nodeIp
@@ -725,7 +736,7 @@ EOF
     cloud_CreateInstances "$prefix" "$prefix-bootstrap-leader" 1 \
       "$enableGpu" "$bootstrapLeaderMachineType" "${zones[0]}" "$fullNodeBootDiskSizeInGb" \
       "$startupScript" "$bootstrapLeaderAddress" "$bootDiskType" "$fullNodeAdditionalDiskSizeInGb" \
-      "$sshPrivateKey"
+      "never preemptible" "$sshPrivateKey"
   fi
 
   if [[ $additionalFullNodeCount -gt 0 ]]; then
@@ -746,7 +757,7 @@ EOF
       cloud_CreateInstances "$prefix" "$prefix-$zone-fullnode" "$numNodesPerZone" \
         "$enableGpu" "$fullNodeMachineType" "$zone" "$fullNodeBootDiskSizeInGb" \
         "$startupScript" "" "$bootDiskType" "$fullNodeAdditionalDiskSizeInGb" \
-        "$sshPrivateKey" &
+        "$preemptible" "$sshPrivateKey" &
     done
 
     wait
@@ -755,7 +766,7 @@ EOF
   if [[ $clientNodeCount -gt 0 ]]; then
     cloud_CreateInstances "$prefix" "$prefix-client" "$clientNodeCount" \
       "$enableGpu" "$clientMachineType" "${zones[0]}" "$clientBootDiskSizeInGb" \
-      "$startupScript" "" "$bootDiskType" "" "$sshPrivateKey"
+      "$startupScript" "" "$bootDiskType" "" "never preemptible" "$sshPrivateKey"
   fi
 
   if $blockstreamer; then
@@ -767,7 +778,7 @@ EOF
   if [[ $replicatorNodeCount -gt 0 ]]; then
     cloud_CreateInstances "$prefix" "$prefix-replicator" "$replicatorNodeCount" \
       false "$replicatorMachineType" "${zones[0]}" "$replicatorBootDiskSizeInGb" \
-      "$startupScript" "" "" "" "$sshPrivateKey"
+      "$startupScript" "" "" "" "never preemptible" "$sshPrivateKey"
   fi
 
   $metricsWriteDatapoint "testnet-deploy net-create-complete=1"

net/net.sh

@@ -840,6 +840,32 @@ stop() {
   echo "Stopping nodes took $SECONDS seconds"
 }
 
+
+checkPremptibleInstances() {
+  # The fullnodeIpList nodes may be preemptible instances that can disappear at
+  # any time.  Try to detect when a fullnode has been preempted to help the user
+  # out.
+  #
+  # Of course this isn't airtight as an instance could always disappear
+  # immediately after its successfully pinged.
+  for ipAddress in "${fullnodeIpList[@]}"; do
+    (
+      set -x
+      ping -o -t 4 "$ipAddress"
+    ) || {
+      cat <<EOF
+
+Warning: $ipAddress may have been preempted.
+
+Run |./gce.sh config| to restart it
+EOF
+      exit 1
+    }
+  done
+}
+
+checkPremptibleInstances
+
 case $command in
 restart)
   prepare_deploy

net/scripts/azure-provider.sh

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ cloud_DefaultZone() {
   echo "westus"
 }
 
+cloud_RestartPreemptedInstances() {
+  : # Not implemented
+}
+
 #
 # __cloud_GetConfigValueFromInstanceName
 # Return a piece of configuration information about an instance

net/scripts/colo-provider.sh

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ cloud_DefaultZone() {
   echo "Denver"
 }
 
+cloud_RestartPreemptedInstances() {
+  : # Not implemented
+}
+
 #
 # __cloud_FindInstances
 #
@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ cloud_Initialize() {
 #                 has been provisioned in the GCE region that is hosting `$zone`
 # bootDiskType  - Optional specify SSD or HDD boot disk
 # additionalDiskSize - Optional specify size of additional storage volume
+# preemptible - Optionally request a preemptible instance ("true")
 #
 # Tip: use cloud_FindInstances to locate the instances once this function
 #      returns
@@ -149,7 +154,8 @@ cloud_CreateInstances() {
   #declare optionalAddress="$9" # unused
   #declare optionalBootDiskType="${10}" # unused
   #declare optionalAdditionalDiskSize="${11}" # unused
-  declare sshPrivateKey="${12}"
+  #declare optionalPreemptible="${12}" # unused
+  declare sshPrivateKey="${13}"
 
   declare -a nodes
   if [[ $numNodes = 1 ]]; then

net/scripts/ec2-provider.sh

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ cloud_DefaultZone() {
   echo "us-east-1b"
 }
 
+cloud_RestartPreemptedInstances() {
+  : # Not implemented
+}
+
 # AWS region is zone with the last character removed
 __cloud_GetRegion() {
   declare zone="$1"

net/scripts/gce-provider.sh

@@ -8,6 +8,29 @@ cloud_DefaultZone() {
   echo "us-west1-b"
 }
 
+#
+# cloud_RestartPreemptedInstances [namePrefix]
+#
+# Restart any preempted instances matching the specified prefix
+#
+# namePrefix - The instance name prefix of the preempted instances
+#
+cloud_RestartPreemptedInstances() {
+  declare filter="$1"
+
+  declare name status zone
+  while read -r name status zone; do
+    echo "Starting $status instance: $name"
+    (
+      set -x
+      gcloud compute instances start --zone "$zone" "$name"
+    )
+  done < <(gcloud compute instances list \
+             --filter "$filter" \
+             --format 'value(name,status,zone)' \
+           | grep TERMINATED)
+}
+
 #
 # __cloud_FindInstances
 #
@@ -125,6 +148,7 @@ cloud_Initialize() {
 #                 has been provisioned in the GCE region that is hosting `$zone`
 # bootDiskType  - Optional specify SSD or HDD boot disk
 # additionalDiskSize - Optional specify size of additional storage volume
+# preemptible - Optionally request a preemptible instance ("true")
 #
 # Tip: use cloud_FindInstances to locate the instances once this function
 #      returns
@@ -140,6 +164,8 @@ cloud_CreateInstances() {
   declare optionalAddress="$9"
   declare optionalBootDiskType="${10}"
   declare optionalAdditionalDiskSize="${11}"
+  declare optionalPreemptible="${12}"
+  #declare sshPrivateKey="${13}"  # unused
 
   if $enableGpu; then
     # Custom Ubuntu 18.04 LTS image with CUDA 9.2 and CUDA 10.0 installed
@@ -176,6 +202,10 @@ cloud_CreateInstances() {
   # shellcheck disable=SC2206 # Do not want to quote $imageName as it may contain extra args
   args+=(--image $imageName)
 
+  if [[ $optionalPreemptible = true ]]; then
+    args+=(--preemptible)
+  fi
+
   # shellcheck disable=SC2206 # Do not want to quote $machineType as it may contain extra args
   for word in $machineType; do
     # Special handling for the "--min-cpu-platform" argument which may contain a