Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA)

In Kubernetes or OpenShift you can set Vertical Pod Autoscaling for your application or microservice (vpa 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:

  # - Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA)
  vpa:
    # Enable VPA: true or false
    enabled: false
    # Defines additional labels
    additionalLabels:
      #key: value
    # Defines annotations in key value pair
    annotations:
      #key: value
    # Define container policies for individual containers
    containerPolicies: []
    updatePolicy:
      updateMode: Auto
  #####

3. Commit and enjoy! ✨