Kubernetes HPA Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide
Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) is a crucial component for maintaining application performance and resource efficiency in Kubernetes clusters. This guide explores implementation best practices and common pitfalls to avoid. Understanding HPA Fundamentals HPA automatically scales the number of pods in a deployment based on observed metrics. While CPU and memory are common scaling triggers, custom metrics can provide more meaningful scaling decisions. Key Metrics Selection When choosing metrics for HPA, consider: ...