By fixing CA not to reset `StaticAutoscaler` state before each iteration so that it remembers last scale-up/down time which is used to throttle scale-down, which is causing the issue.
This is an alternative implementation of https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/pull/1982
Notable differences from the original PR are:
* A new flag named `--node-group-auto-discovery` is introduced for opting in to enable the auto-discovery feature.
* For example, specifying `--cloud-provider aws --node-group-auto-discovery asg:tag=k8s.io/cluster-autoscaler/enabled` instructs CA to auto-discover ASGs tagged with `k8s.io/cluster-autoscaler/enabled` to be used as target node groups
* The new code path introduced by this PR is executed only when `node-group-auto-discovery` is specified. There is relatively less chance to break existing features by introducing this change
Resolves https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/issues/1956
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Other notes:
* We rely mainly on the `DescribeTags` API rather than `DescribeAutoScalingGroups` so that AWS can filter out unnecessary ASGs which doesn't belong to the k8s cluster, for us.
* If we relied on `DescribeAutoScalingGroups` here, as it doesn't support `Filter`ing, we'd need to iterate over ALL the ASGs available in an AWS account, which isn't desirable due to unnecessary excessive API calls and network usages
* Update cloudprovider/aws/README for the new configuration
* Warn abount invalid combination of flags
according to the review comment https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/pull/11#discussion_r113713138
* Emit a validation error when both --nodes and --node-group-auto-discovery are specified
according to the review comment https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/pull/11#discussion_r113958080
TODO/Possible future improvements before recommending this to everyone:
* Cache the result of an auto-discovery for a configurable period, so that we won't invoke DescribeTags and DescribeAutoScalingGroup APIs too many times
mmerrill3
Beata Skiba
Yusuke Kuoka
Marcin Wielgus
Maciej Pytel