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CI jobs are typically disk I/O bound and will greater benefit from use of storage optimized nodes for the k8s node pool.
Note we need to look into using the recently enabled Prometheus metrics in conjunction with HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaling) to fully make use of the upper bound of the node pool.