Just curious about this, could you explain if you're running Steem on the cluster? Steem performance is not CPU bound. It doesn't need a ton of cores unless you absolutely need to compile in less than 1 minute :P
Your witness server's specs are pretty impressive, and it might actually be better put to use as an API node. If you use it for your witness node, at least you'll know you won't need to upgrade for a while!
Cool. K8s let's me downscale pretty easily, so I may just do that. That way I can divert them to other nodes. I could probably start a couple more nodes. Thanks.
Also, it is running as a
full node. Every plugin is enabled.