Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 - Second Edition

Auto Scaling

With the help of monitoring solutions, we can measure the performance parameters of an infrastructure. This is usually in the form of performance SLAs. Auto Scaling gives us the ability to increase or decrease the resources available to the system, based on performance thresholds.

The Auto Scaling feature adds additional resources to cater to increased load. It works in reverse, as well. If the load is reduced, then Auto Scaling reduces the number of resources available to perform the task. Auto Scaling does it all without pre-provisioning the resources, and does this in an automated way.

Auto Scaling can scale in both ways—vertically (adding more resources to the existing resource type) or horizontally (adding resources by creating ...