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cortesoft on May 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

That is autoscaling within the cluster.... not the cluster itself.

Although, managed kubernetes clusters let you auto-scale the cluster itself, so i think the GP is wrong.

frompdx on May 29, 2020 | [–]

Check out Cluster AutoScaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster...

This tool allows you to autoscale the cluster itself with various cloud providers. There is a list of cloud providers it supports at the end of the readme.

cortesoft on May 30, 2020 | [–]

I misread the link... it is genuine cluster scaling

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