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16 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2017-07-07 · latest 2025-08-15

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  1. …you would wire up cluster autoscaler to point to it using clusterapi https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/a9cb59fdd2dd88...
    comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2025-08-15 · in Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
  2. …a native auto scaling equivalent, but if you're using Kubernetes, they have a cluster autoscaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster... Hetzner Cloud's biggest gap for me right now is secure VMs: they don't…
    comment by candiddevmike · 2023-12-02 · in GCP Incidents
  3. …"true" to all deployments. Silly default IMO but apparently "intentional". https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/issues/2048
    comment by tveita · 2022-11-21 · in Kubernetes Cordon: How It Works and When to Use It
  4. …if the grandparent post just needed some configuration changes to suit their scenario better. [1] https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...
    comment by embik · 2022-11-21 · in Kubernetes Cordon: How It Works and When to Use It
  5. …GKE https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/cluster-autos... AWS https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster... Azure https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster... Alibaba Cloud https://gi
    comment by carlhjerpe · 2022-04-12 · in We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure
  6. …(otherwise you could have planned for it) elastic infrastructure via a cluster autoscaler[2]. [0]: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertica... [1]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-... [2]:…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2020-09-03 · in Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
  7. …you _wanted_ to attempt to chase this down, you should look at using the Vertical Pod Autoscaler ( https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertica... ) in recommendation only mode in order to get a good idea of what services…
    comment by nrmitchi · 2020-09-02 · in Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
  8. If your pods need to be long running, you can annotate them as such and they will not be autoscaled. https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...
    comment by dharmab · 2020-09-01 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
  9. Check out Cluster AutoScaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster... This tool allows you to autoscale the cluster itself with various cloud providers. There is a list of cloud providers it supports at the end of…
    comment by frompdx · 2020-05-29 · in Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
  10. …cost hiding. We recently saved a lot of money by: - Using the Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler ( https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertica... ) for CPU and memory scaling, and switching to metrics like requests per…
    comment by dharmab · 2019-07-26 · in Hakuna Cloud – Stop cloud servers when they are not in use
  11. …(assuming I understand what they need) via horizontal pod scaling and the cluster autoscaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster... . Although there are rough edges here, I was surprised by the quality of the code…
    comment by cdoxsey · 2018-10-30 · in Peloton: Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads
  12. Autoscaler( https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster... ) is a good option too. Works incredibly well at automatically adding/removing nodes based on workload.
    comment by aliencat · 2018-07-30 · in Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
  13. …management. Scaling, HA, backups, etc. 1 - https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/bootkube 2 - https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...
    comment by meta_AU · 2018-06-28 · in Kubernetes 1.11 includes In-Cluster Service Load Balancing and CoreDNS
  14. …an issue about this almost a year ago, looks like they're finally getting around to addressing it: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/pull/77
    comment by yissachar · 2017-08-31 · in Bootstrapping Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform without scripts
  15. It sounds like you may be looking for the cluster autoscaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster... . When used with Kops, it should give you what you're looking for (with the baked in kops AMI)
    comment by nrmitchi · 2017-08-31 · in Bootstrapping Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform without scripts
  16. …and how does it handle this? [1]: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kube-aws [2]: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster...
    comment by yebyen · 2017-07-07 · in Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using Kops