LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2018

Kubernetes is becoming standard to build and manage cloud native applications in production. However, when running kubernetes on public or private clouds, applications may still be broken by various issues. This talk will go over how autoscaling could help to solve node failure and lack of cluster capacity problem. Autoscaling could also help to reduce costs by removing unneeded nodes.

The topic will cover areas such as why autoscaling is important to keep kubernetes healthy, pros/cons of various autoscaling polices and how it is done on Azure. It also covers some subtle gotchas while autoscaling and what we should do to avoid them.