Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)
Automatically right-size your Pod resource requests and limits with the Vertical Pod Autoscaler.
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This lesson covers VPA:
- VPA vs HPA: vertical (bigger pods) vs horizontal (more pods)
- VPA modes: Off, Initial, Recreation, Auto
- VPA components: Recommender, Updater, Admission Plugin
- VPA recommendations: how to read them, how accurate they are
- Using VPA in “Off” mode for right-sizing recommendations only
- VPA + HPA: which metrics are safe to use together
- Limitations: restarts containers to apply changes
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