What is Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) in Kubernetes?

Kubernetes Fundamentals Medium

Kubernetes Fundamentals — Medium

What is Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) in Kubernetes?

Key points

  • HPA scales Pod replicas, not nodes in the cluster
  • Metrics like CPU utilization drive the scaling process
  • Custom metrics can also be used to trigger scaling

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