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Introduction: Scale the Application

Explore how to scale applications in Kubernetes by manually adjusting replicas. This lesson helps you understand the basics of scaling up and down, the role of labels, and differences between declarative and imperative methods, preparing you for automated scaling in the future.

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In this chapter, we’ll scale the app up and down. The methods we’ll learn are manual and require a human to implement them. In the real world, we’ll use a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to make scaling automatic. These are beyond the scope of this course, but the ...