Question

How do you manage scaling in Kubernetes?

Answer 1

This artcile answers it very well:

  https://www.replex.io/blog/kubernetes-in-production-best-practices-for-cluster-autoscaler-hpa-and-vpa

  a. hpa for pods (horizontal pod autoscaler)

  b. vpa for pods (vertical pod autoscaler)

  c. Cluster Autoscaler:

       The cluster autoscaler is a Kubernetes tool that increases or decreases the size of a Kubernetes cluster (by adding or removing nodes), based on the presence of pending pods and node utilization metrics

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