Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Kubernetes

An example of HPA that scales up and down depending on CPU and memory consumption.

apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: identity
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: deploymentname
  minReplicas: 2
  maxReplicas: 10
  behavior:
    scaleUp:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: 300
      policies:
      - type: Pods
        value: 1
        periodSeconds: 300
    scaleDown:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: 300
      policies:
      - type: Pods
        value: 1
        periodSeconds: 300
      selectPolicy: Min
  metrics:
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: cpu
      target:
        type: Utilization
        averageUtilization: 50
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: memory
      target:
        type: AverageValue
        averageValue: 1000Mi