Installation of Cluster Autoscaler #

We might need to install Cluster Autoscaler before we start using it. I said that we might, instead of saying that we have to because some Kubernetes flavors do come with Cluster Autoscaler baked in, while others don’t. We’ll go through each of the “big three” managed Kubernetes clusters. You might choose to explore all three of them, or to jump to the one you prefer. As a learning experience, I believe that it is beneficial to experience running Kubernetes in all three providers. Nevertheless, that might not be your view and you might prefer using only one. The choice is yours.

Setting up Cluster Autoscaler in GKE #

This will be the shortest section ever written. There’s nothing to do in GKE if you specified the --enable-autoscaling argument when creating the cluster. It ...