aws / aws/aws-parallelcluster

Feature request: ability to change HeadNode (Master node) instance type

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Description

I noticed that even as of Parallelcluster 3.5, the ability to change the instance type (even just changing the size, within the same instance class) of the HeadNode is **still** not a thing one can update with a pcluster update. "If you need this change, please consider creating a new cluster instead of updating the existing one" is such a silly answer...
Screen Shot 2023-04-10 at 1 23 36 PM

...since it's so easy and foolproof already to do this with the workaround we've been using since Parallelcluster 2.X:

1) Stop head node (can even do this in the Parallelcluster GUI now)
2) Go to instance in AWS EC2 console or CLI (can even get to console by clicking instance in the Parallelcluster GUI now)
3) Change instance type in EC2 console or CLI
4) Start head node (can even do this in the Parallelcluster GUI now)

What's especially funny is that after doing this, the Parallelcluster GUI even reports the correct instance type!Screen Shot 2023-04-10 at 1 26 09 PM

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