Hands-on Autoscaling with Kubernetes

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Kubernetes (commonly stylized as k8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It aims to provide a "platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts". It works with a range of container tools, including Docker.

Many cloud services offer a Kubernetes-based platform or infrastructure as a service (PaaS or IaaS) on which Kubernetes can be deployed as a platform-providing service. Many vendors also provide their own branded Kubernetes distributions.

Autoscaling Special Interest Group

Covers development and maintenance of components for automated scaling in Kubernetes. This includes automated vertical and horizontal pod autoscaling, initial resource estimation, cluster-proportional system component autoscaling, and autoscaling of Kubernetes clusters themselves.

🕰 Timeline

00:00 - Holding screen
00:40 - Introductions
03:20 - About Kubernetes autoscaling
09:40 - Different types of auto-scaling on Kubernetes
11:50 - Autoscaling with resource metrics
33:00 - Autoscaling with custom metrics
57:00 - Autoscaling with external metrics
1:17:45 - Vertical pod autoscaling

🌎 Resources

Guy Templeton - https://twitter.com/GJTempleton

Tutorial - https://github.com/gjtempleton/k8s-autoscaling-by-example
SIG Autoscaling - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-autoscaling

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