The K8s Spot Termination handler watches the AWS metadata service when running on Spot Instances.
When a Spot Instance is due to be terminated, precisely 2 minutes before it’s termination a “termination notice” is issued. The K8s Spot Termination Handler watches for this and then gracefully drains the node it is running on before the node is taken away by AWS.
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