6 Scaling applications across multiple Pods with controllers
The basic idea for scaling applications is simple: run more Pods. Kubernetes abstracts networking and storage away from the compute layer, so you can run many Pods, which are copies of the same app, and just plug them into the same abstractions. Kubernetes calls those Pods replicas, and in a multinode cluster, they’ll be distributed across many nodes. This gives you all the benefits of scale: greater capacity to handle load and high availability in case of failure—all in a platform that can scale up and down in seconds.
Kubernetes also provides some alternative scaling options to meet different application requirements, and we’ll work through them all in this chapter. The one you’ll ...
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