Using KEDA and Prometheus to auto-scale your k8s workloads

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  • keda

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

  • $ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/download/v2.4.0/keda-2.4.0.yaml

  • keda-demo

  • InfluxDB

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  • kind

    Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

  • First let's spin up a cluster! I am using kind but you are free to use minikube if you prefer that :).

  • Hey

    HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement (by rakyll)

  • We can see that our prometheus-scaledobject is ready so let’s scale our application! Remember our application scales on the metric http_requests_total and our threshold is only 100 so we should be able reach that threshold. For this we can use a simple tool called hey.

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