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OCI-AutoScale

Welcome to the Scheduled Auto Scaling Script for OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).

The AutoScaleALL script: A single Auto Scaling script for all OCI resources that support scaling up/down and power on/off operations.

NEW

  • Supports rate limiting. When trying to do too many operations at the same time, OCI starts blocking calls. Build-in Delay and retry method.
  • Better support for error logging as part of the Notifications

Supported services

  • Compute VMs: On/Off
  • Instance Pools: On/Off and Scaling (# of instances)
  • Database VMs: On/Off
  • Database Baremetal Servers: Scaling (# of CPUs)
  • Autonomous Database: On/Off and Scaling (# of CPUs)
  • Oracle Digital Assistant: On/Off
  • Oracle Analytics Cloud: On/Off and Scaling (between 2 and8 and 10-12)

Features

  • Support for using the script with Instance Principle. Meaning you can run this script inside OCI and when configured properly, you do not need to provide any details or credentials.
  • Support for sending Notification after script is done. Thanks to Joel Nation for this! All you need to do is configure the Topic OCID in the script and make sure the user or instance principle has the correct permissions to publish Notifications.

How to use

To control what to scale up/down or power on/off, you need to create a predefined tag called Schedule. If you want to localize this, that is possible in the script. For the predefined tag, you need entries for the days of the week, weekdays, weekends and anyday. The tags names are case sensitive!

A single resource can contain multiple tags. A Weekend/Weekday tag overrules an AnyDay tag. A specific day of the week tag (ie. Monday) overrules all other tags.

The value of the tag needs to contain 24 numbers (else it is ignored), seperated by commas. If the value is 0 it will power off the resource (if that is supported for that resource). Any number higher then 0 will re-scale the resource to that number. If the resource is powered off, it first will power-on the resource and then scale to the correct size.

Scaling Example Instance Pool

Power Off Example DB VM

The script supports 3 running methods: All, Up, Down

  • All: This will execute any scaling and power on/off operation
  • Down: This will execute only power off and scaling down operations
  • Up: This will execute only power on and scaling up operations

The thinking behind this is that most OCI resources are charged per hour. So you likely want to run scale down / power off operations just before the end of the hour and run power on and scale up operations just after the hour.

To ensure the script runs as fast as possible, all blocking operations (power on, wait to be available and then re-scale) are executed in seperate threads. I would recommend you run scaling down actions 2 minutes before the end of the hour and run scaling up actions just after the hour.

You can deploy this script anywhere you like as long as the location has internet access to the OCI API services.

More information

Please check www.oc-blog.com

Disclaimer

This is a personal repository. Any code, views or opinions represented here are personal and belong solely to me and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be associated with in professional or personal capacity, unless explicitly stated.

Please test properly on test resources, before using it on production resources to prevent unwanted outages or very expensive bills.