vpa – William Denniss

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I wrote a book on Kubernetes designed for developers like you. Full of practical examples on how to use the various Kubernetes resources like Deployment, StatefulSet and Job to deploy your applications.

Getting resource recommendations from VPA

Setting appropriate resource requirements in Pods is one of the most critical tasks of a developer deploying in Kubernetes. In section 5.2 of my book, I discuss how you can use kubectl top pods to analyze and set resource values. If you’re fortunate enough to use GKE where the VPA component is offered out of… Continue reading Getting resource recommendations from VPA

Scaling container resources automatically with VPA

Vertical Pod Autoscaling is a system that measures Pod utilization and attempts to set the right resource requests. For example, if the Pod is constantly using more CPU, VPA will increase the CPU requests. Contrasting Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) which can create more replicas as your Pods use more resources, VPA changes the resources of… Continue reading Scaling container resources automatically with VPA