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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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