Introduction

This lesson provides a short recap of what we have discussed so far and also the limitations of Metrics Server.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

-Spock

Short recap

So far, we explored how to leverage some of Kubernetes’s core features. We used HorizontalPodAutoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler. While the former relies on Metrics Server, the latter is not based on metrics, but on Scheduler’s inability to place Pods within the existing cluster capacity. Even though Metrics Server does provide some basic ...