Autoscaling Ingress controllers in Kubernetes

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  • helm-charts

    Prometheus community Helm charts

    • Since Nginx-ingress uses annotations for Prometheus, I installed the server without the Kubernetes operator.

  • keda

    KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes

    • I decided to go with KEDA because:

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  • metrics-server

    Scalable and efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

    • It's an autoscaler with a metrics server (so I don't need to install 2 different tools).

  • http-add-on

    Add-on for KEDA to scale HTTP workloads

    • KEDA ships with an HTTP add-on to enable HTTP scaling.

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