Make regional deployments work; what to do about the disks for metadata

[jlewi]

We would like to support regional deployments of Kubeflow; i.e. use a regional cluster. Ideally this would be the default deployment since regional clusters are more reliable and there is minimal cost savings to using a zonal cluster.

One issue we need to resolve is what to do about the disks backing up the metadata DB.

We should be able to use regional PDs.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/high-availability-regional-persistent-disk

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[jtfogarty]

/kind feature
/priority p2

[damitkwr]

Is there an update on work for this as this is a highly desirable feature for enterprise installations

[Bobgy]

Is there an update on work for this as this is a highly desirable feature for enterprise installations

Hi @damitkwr, thanks for your interest. Thumbs up on the issue give us more metrics to prioritize them.

[susan-shu-c]

Interested in regional as well!

[Bobgy]

We've supported regional clusters in Kubeflow 1.3 on Google Cloud by switching to use CloudSQL + GCS by default.