Horizontal pod autoscaling(HPA) in Azure aks

Hey folks!! its been a couple of months that couldn’t do a writeup on a topic. Having been closely watching the Rise and the Rise of Kubernetes based solutions off late I found the Auto scaling concepts pretty exciting. There are 3 different ways of scaling in kuberenetes Horizontal Pod AutoScaler(HPA) – Declarative Pod Resource Request based scaling Cluster Node

Azure Autoscale & Custom Metric scaling feature updates

Improvements to Autoscale, faster auto scaling, simplified configuration, the ability to scale by a custom metric using Application Insights. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-your-business-needs-with-new-enhancements-in-azure-autoscale/ Faster Autoscale  Classic Cloud Services:  Autoscale setting can now be set to have as low as a five-minute time window to activate (previous recommended time window was no less than 30 minutes). VMSS and App Services:The Autoscale engine for VMSS