Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Background
One of the most amazing things about Kubernetes is its ability to automatically scale up and down.
In current (autoscaling/v1
) releases, the only metric which could be used as a scaling target is CPU usage, as measured by heapster.
With the introduction of the custom metrics api, deployments will be able to scale using one or more application-specific metrics, as well as CPU.
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