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Introduction

Explore the three phases of adopting HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) in Kubernetes, from initial discovery to advanced usage with custom metrics. Understand the limitations of default CPU and memory-based scaling and learn how to extend HPA capabilities using tools like Prometheus for dynamic, application-specific scaling.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

- Spock

HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) phases

The adoption of HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) usually goes through three phases.

First phase

The first phase is discovery. The first time we find out what it does, we ...