Scale to zero
Scaling to zero means reducing something to no running copies while keeping its configuration so it can come back, for example setting a Kubernetes Deployment to zero replicas. Related patterns scale to one or to a minimum instead. A ZopNight namespace stop scales Deployments and StatefulSets to zero, and a cluster-level stop scales the node groups to zero. Why it matters: Nothing running means nothing billed for compute, at the price of a slower first response when it returns.
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