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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 content levelIntermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scaling down the cluster

Scaling up the cluster to meet the demand is essential since it allows us to host all the replicas we need to fulfill (some of) our SLAs. When the demand drops and our nodes become underutilized, we should scale down. That is not essential given that our users will not experience problems caused by having too much hardware in our cluster. Nevertheless, we shouldn't have underutilized nodes if we are to reduce expenses. Unused nodes result in wasted money. That is true in all situations, especially when running in Cloud and paying only for the resources we used. Even on-prem, where we already purchased hardware, it is essential to scale down and release resources so that they can be used by other clusters.

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