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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit
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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

by Viktor Farcic
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Can we scale up too much or de-scale to zero nodes?

If we let Cluster Autoscaler do its "magic" without defining any thresholds, our cluster or our wallet might be at risk.

We might, for example, misconfigure HPA and end up scaling Deployments or StatefulSets to a huge number of replicas. As a result, Cluster Autoscaler might add too many nodes to the cluster. As a result, we could end up paying for hundreds of nodes, even though we need much less. Luckily, AWS, Azure, and GCP limit how many nodes we can have so we cannot scale to infinity. Nevertheless, we should not allow Cluster Autoscaler to go over some limits.

Similarly, there is a danger that Cluster Autoscaler will scale down to too few nodes. Having zero nodes is almost impossible ...

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