March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
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34h 20m
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The combination of being able to auto scale at the pod level and then the container cluster level is extremely powerful and immensely useful. This diagram shows an example workflow of how these two auto scaling mechanisms work in concert to give you a very scalable overall solution:

This can be boiled down to the following: GKE autoscaling creates additional nodes when Kubernetes autoscaling has created pods and they don't have enough resources to run. Conversely, GKE autoscaling also deletes nodes when pods on them are underutilized.
Given the power and usefulness of autoscaling, one would think that configuring ...
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