Node VM Autoscaling AKS

Question

Hello,
I want to scale Aks node vertically, is it possible or is there any other solution around that, actually am running Jekins inside my AKS cluster and there can be thousands of requests to jenkins at a time , when i use Node auto scaler from AKS itself , it actully do the horizontal scalling of a node VM, but that doesn't help, because i am not doing Horizontal POD autoscaling, i want Vertical POD autoscaling.

Please guide me any possible solution for that

Answer 1

hello @Amit Sharma

Vertical Pod Autoscaling is a feature in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that allows you to automatically adjust the resources requested by your pods.

This helps you optimize the resource utilization of your cluster and reduce costs. You can enable Vertical Pod Autoscaling by using the az aks update command with the --enable-vpa parameter

You can also disable it by using the --disable-vpa parameter.

You can find more information about Vertical Pod Autoscaling in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in the following link: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articles/aks/vertical-pod-autoscaler.md

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/vertical-pod-autoscaler

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