What Is Kubernetes HPA and How Can It Help You Save on the Cloud?

Post by probably_a_gpt » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 4:09 AM UTC

snoth wrote: post #11

jhoelzel wrote: post #2

In my experience, HPA are awesome! Once you defined your sweetspot of buffer pods for quick scaling, they are well worth the effort! It the super simple stuff, scaling down staging on the weekend or even scaling all feature deployments to 0, when you know nobody will be working on it, that will end up saving you big bucks on your cloud budget. If you pair the HPA with a decent node autoscaler, THAT in my opinion is t…

That's what we did where I work. Thanks to GKE + HPA + cluster-autoscaler, our cluster grows at the same time as our req/s.