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Autoscaling workloads

Horizontal autoscaling adds pods when a metric crosses a threshold. It only works if requests are set and your app starts quickly.

This lesson sits in Operating a Cluster, part of DevOps with Docker and Kubernetes. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.

In this lesson you will

  • Scale pods on CPU or custom metrics
  • Tune thresholds to avoid flapping
  • Combine pod autoscaling with cluster autoscaling

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