Only fail when we can

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/provisioning/CapacityPolicies.java b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/provisioning/CapacityPolicies.java
index 6168d6fcf78..0eabf2e972d 100644
--- a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/provisioning/CapacityPolicies.java
+++ b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/provisioning/CapacityPolicies.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public class CapacityPolicies {
     }
 
     public int decideSize(Capacity requestedCapacity) {
-        int requestedNodes = ensureRedundancy(requestedCapacity.nodeCount());
+        int requestedNodes = ensureRedundancy(requestedCapacity.nodeCount(), requestedCapacity.canFail());
         if (requestedCapacity.isRequired()) return requestedNodes;
 
         switch(zone.environment()) {
@@ -68,12 +68,11 @@ public class CapacityPolicies {
      * Throw if the node count is 1 and we're in a production zone
      *
      * @return the argument node count
-     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if only one node is requested
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if only one node is requested and we can fail
      */
-    private int ensureRedundancy(int nodeCount) {
-        if (nodeCount == 1 && zone.environment().isProduction() && zone.system() != SystemName.cd) {
+    private int ensureRedundancy(int nodeCount, boolean canFail) {
+        if (canFail && nodeCount == 1 && zone.environment().isProduction() && zone.system() != SystemName.cd)
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Deployments to prod require at least 2 nodes per cluster for redundancy");
-        }
         return nodeCount;
     }