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Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

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Tags: kubernetes autoscaling kubernetes.io
Clipped on: 2018-01-30

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Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

This document describes the current state of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler in Kubernetes.

What is the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler?

The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler automatically scales the number of pods in a replication controller, deployment or replica set based on observed CPU utilization (or, with custom metrics support, on some other application-provided metrics). Note that Horizontal Pod Autoscaling does not apply to objects that can’t be scaled, for example, DaemonSets.

The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler is implemented as a Kubernetes API resource and a controller. The resource determines the behavior of the controller. The controller periodically adjusts the number of replicas in a replication controller or deployment to match the observed average CPU utilization to the target specified by user.

How does the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler work?

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