Autoscaling & Resource Management
4 Topics
1
Resource Requests and Limits — CPU and Memory
Avoiding OOM kills and configuring CPU shares correctly.
2
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) — Scaling on Metrics
Scaling pod replica counts automatically based on CPU/memory/custom metrics.
3
Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) — Right-Sizing Pods
Tuning resource allocation automatically over time.
4
Cluster Autoscaler — Adding and Removing Nodes
Scaling underlying cloud compute VM counts based on pending pods.