<p>I have been setting up karpenter in my test eks cluster. And what I have noticed is that Karpenter works on a cluster-level --- it monitors every node and pod in the cluster and scales them up and down. However, I am wondering if it is possible to tell karpenter to target/monitor only specific node groups in the cluster with labels/tags and stuff? Because I feel it is a bit risky to apply it to the whole cluster in my company's infrastructure and would like to start with a smaller target.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Any thoughts on karpenter targeting a specific node group.</p>

user20143114
<p>You can do that simply by adding labels to your <code>Provisioner</code> custom resource, just like the current node groups. For example:</p>
<pre><code>labels:
  nodegroup: frontend
</code></pre>
<p>Karpenter will not affect existing nodes (you'll have to scale down yourself).</p>
