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How to set up scaling and autoscaling in Kubernetes.

Today I am going to show how to scale docker containers on Kubernetes and you will see how easy it is.
Then we will look at how pods could be autoscaled based on the performance degradation and CPU Utilisation.


1. Deploy simple stack to k8s
2. Scaling the deployment manually.
3. Autoscaling in k8s based on CPU Utilisation.

1. Deploy simple stack to k8s

If you don’t have Kubernetes installed on your machine in this article I demonstrate how easily this can be achieved on MacOS, it literally takes few minutes to set up.

So let’s create a deployment of a simple test http server container:

  
➜  ~ kubectl  run busybox --image=busybox --port 8080  \
         -- sh -c "while true; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; \
         env | grep HOSTNAME | sed 's/.*=//g'; } | nc -l -p  8080; done"
deployment "busybox" created

I have also set it up in a way so it returns it’s hostname in the response to http get request, we will need it to distinguish
responses from different instances later on. Once deployed, we can check our deployment and pod status:

➜  ~ kubectl get deployments
NAME      DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
busybox   1         1         1            1           3m
➜  ~ kubectl get pod
NAME                       READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
busybox-7bcdf6684b-jnp6w   1/1       Running       0          18s
➜  ~

As you can see it’s current ‘DESIRED’ state equals to 1.

Next step is to expose our deployment through a service so it can be queried from outside of the cluster:

➜  ~ kubectl expose deployment busybox --type=NodePort
service "busybox" exposed

This will expose our endpoint:

➜  ~ kubectl get endpoints
NAME         ENDPOINTS         AGE
busybox      172.17.0.9:8080   23s

Once it is done, we can ask our cluster manager tool to get us it’s api url:

➜  ~ minikube service busybox --url
http://192.168.99.100:31623

If we query it we will get it’s hostname in the response:

➜  ~ curl http://192.168.99.100:31623
busybox-7bcdf6684b-jnp6w

2. Scaling the deployment manually.
Now our deployment is ready to be scaled:

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