Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

In Kubernetes or OpenShift you can set the Horizontal Autoscaling for your application or microservice.(The hpa object)
This page explains you how.

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1. In your manifest repository's main branch, you will find the values.yaml file, it showld be in the following folder structure [environment]/[project]/[application]

2. In the values.yaml file, search for the Additional Customizations section, you will find it like this:

## Additional Customizations #################################################

3. Bellow the section title, add the following configuration and change the values as you need:

  # - Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)
  autoscaling:
    # Enable Autoscaling: true or false
    enabled: false
    # Defines additional labels
    additionalLabels:
      #key: value
    # Defines annotations in key value pair
    annotations:
      #key: value
    # Sets the minimum number of replicas
    minReplicas: 1
    # Sets the maximum number of replicas
    maxReplicas: 10
    # Metrics used for hpa
    metrics:
    #- type: Resource
    #  resource:
    #    name: memory
    #    target:
    #       type: Utilization
    #       averageUtilization: 60
    #- type: Resource
    #  resource:
    #    name: cpu
    #    target:
    #       type: Utilization
    #       averageUtilization: 60
  #####

4. Commit and enjoy! ✨