Kubernetes manifests · Scaling and access control

Autoscale on CPU

Scale a Deployment between 2 and 10 replicas to keep CPU near 70%. Needs metrics-server.

apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: web
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: web
  minReplicas: 2
  maxReplicas: 10
  metrics:
    - type: Resource
      resource:
        name: cpu
        target:
          type: Utilization
          averageUtilization: 70

Official Kubernetes manifests documentation

More scaling and access control commands

PodDisruptionBudget
ServiceAccount
Role and RoleBinding
Schedule onto matching nodes

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