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What is the purpose of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler in Azure Kubernetes Service?

To provision a larger number of application instances

To manually scale replicas or nodes based on a fixed cost

To monitor resource demand and automatically scale the number of pods based on defined metrics such as CPU usage

What is the purpose of the Kubernetes cluster autoscaler?

To monitor the status of the Kubernetes API server

To adjust the number of pods based on application demand

To adjust the number of nodes based on the requested compute resources in the node pool

What is the purpose of the cluster autoscaler component in AKS?

To manually enable or edit settings for scale set autoscale in the Azure portal or using the Azure CLI.

To create a resource group using the az group create command.

Enables the automation and validation of the creation and teardown of environments to help deliver secure and stable application hosting platforms.

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