📈 Autoscaling Recipes

Scale your workloads automatically with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, Vertical Pod Autoscaler, KEDA, and cluster autoscaling strategies.

7 recipes available

Intermediate

How to Optimize Kubernetes Resource Usage

Reduce Kubernetes costs and improve efficiency with resource optimization techniques. Learn to right-size workloads, implement VPA, and use spot instances.

⏱ 35 minutes K8s 1.28+

How to Implement Pod Autoscaling with KEDA

Scale workloads based on external events with KEDA. Configure scalers for queues, databases, Prometheus metrics, and custom sources.

⏱ 15 minutes K8s 1.28+

How to Use KEDA for Event-Driven Autoscaling

Deploy KEDA for event-driven autoscaling in Kubernetes. Scale based on queue length, metrics, cron schedules, and external events.

⏱ 15 minutes K8s 1.28+

How to Configure Cluster Autoscaler

Automatically scale your Kubernetes cluster nodes based on workload demand. Learn to configure Cluster Autoscaler for AWS, GCP, and Azure.

⏱ 30 minutes K8s 1.28+

How to Use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)

Automatically right-size your Kubernetes pods with Vertical Pod Autoscaler. Learn to configure VPA for optimal resource requests and limits.

⏱ 25 minutes K8s 1.28+

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) Configuration Guide

Set up automatic pod scaling based on CPU, memory, or custom metrics using Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Includes examples for scaling based on requests per second.

⏱ 20 minutes K8s 1.25+

Advanced

How to Scale Based on Custom Metrics

Configure Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with custom and external metrics. Learn to scale on application-specific metrics like queue depth and request latency.

⏱ 15 minutes K8s 1.28+

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