gce/Preemptible Instance
Investigate the cause of a preemptible VM termination
Product: Compute Engine
Step Type: AUTOMATED STEP
Description
Preemptible VMs are short-lived instances. This step investigates normal or abnormal circumstances leading to termination.
Failure Reason
{status_message}
Failure Remediation
Instance {full_resource_path} were preempted as part of a spot VM normal process.
Spot VMs have significant discounts, but Compute Engine might preemptively stop or delete (preempt) Spot VMs to reclaim capacity at any time.
Read more on here the preemption process occurs here [1][2]
This is a normal process and no action is required.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#preemption [2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot