kops/docs/horizontal_pod_autoscaling.md

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# Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
With Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, Kubernetes automatically scales the number of
pods in a replication controller, deployment, or replica set based on observed
CPU utilization (or, with alpha support, on some other, application-provided
metrics).
The HorizontalPodAutscaler `autoscaling/v2` stable API moved to GA in 1.23.
The previous stable version, which only includes support for CPU autoscaling, can
be found in the `autoscaling/v1` API version. The beta version, which includes
support for scaling on memory and custom metrics, can be found in
`autoscaling/v2beta1` in 1.8 - 1.24 (and `autoscaling/v2beta2` in 1.12 - 1.25).
kOps sets up HPA out of the box. Relevant reading to go through:
* [Extending the Kubernetes API with the aggregation layer][k8s-extend-api]
* [Configure The Aggregation Layer][k8s-aggregation-layer]
* [Horizontal Pod Autoscaling][k8s-hpa]
While the above links go into details on how Kubernetes needs to be configured
to work with HPA, the work is already done for you by kOps.
Specifically:
* [x] Enable the [Aggregation Layer][k8s-aggregation-layer] via the following
kube-apiserver flags:
* [x] `--requestheader-client-ca-file=<path to aggregator CA cert>`
* [x] `--requestheader-allowed-names=aggregator`
* [x] `--requestheader-extra-headers-prefix=X-Remote-Extra-`
* [x] `--requestheader-group-headers=X-Remote-Group`
* [x] `--requestheader-username-headers=X-Remote-User`
* [x] `--proxy-client-cert-file=<path to aggregator proxy cert>`
* [x] `--proxy-client-key-file=<path to aggregator proxy key>`
* [x] Enable [Horizontal Pod Scaling][k8s-hpa] ... set the appropriate flags for
`kube-controller-manager`:
* [x] `--kubeconfig <path-to-kubeconfig>`
## Cluster Configuration
### Support For Multiple Metrics
To enable the resource metrics API for scaling on CPU and memory, enable metrics-server by setting `spec.metricsServer.enabled=true` in the Cluster spec. The
compatibility matrix is as follows:
Metrics Server | Metrics API group/version | Supported Kubernetes version
---------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------
0.3.x | `metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1` | 1.8+
### Support For Custom Metrics
To enable the custom metrics API, register it via the API aggregation layer. If you're using
Prometheus, checkout the [custom metrics adapter for Prometheus][k8s-prometheus-custom-metrics-adapter].
[k8s-aggregation-layer]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/configure-aggregation-layer/
[k8s-extend-api]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/apiserver-aggregation/
[k8s-hpa]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/
[k8s-prometheus-custom-metrics-adapter]: https://github.com/DirectXMan12/k8s-prometheus-adapter