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Autoscale a Deployment in Kubernetes
The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler is a great way to automatically scale Kubernetes applications in response to demands in real time. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to practice your skills with the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler by autoscaling an existing Deployment. This will give you some hands-on experience with autoscaling applications in Kubernetes.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Configure Resource Requests for the Deployment
The
plantzone
Deployment is in thedefault
namespace. Add a resource request to the Deployment's Pod template so that the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler will have a baseline for app's expected CPU usage. Each Pod is expected to use around50m
CPU under normal conditions.You can find a Deployment manifest for the
plantzone
Deployment at/home/cloud_user/plantzone.yml
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Challenge
Create an HPA to Autoscale the Deployment
Create a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to automatically scale the
plantzone
Deployment. Make sure there is always a minimum of2
replicas, with the ability to scale up to a maximum of8
replicas. The target percentage for CPU utilization should be50
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Challenge
Simulate a Burst of CPU Load and Observe the Autoscaling Behavior
You can create load by making a specialized HTTP request to any of the Deployment's Pods. There is a NodePort service in place to make it easy to reach these Pods. You can communicate with the Service using port
30080
on the lab server node,localhost:30080
.This command will generate approximately
250m
CPU load for2
minutes:curl localhost:30080/ConsumeCPU -d "millicores=250&durationSec=120"
After generating the load, observe the behavior of the autoscaler. It should scale the Deployment up. Then, about 5 minutes after the CPU load goes way, it should scale back down.
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