These days, for many, Kubernetes is nearly a synonym of cloud-native. In many cases, this means abandoning the on-premise infrastructure to gain all advantages of infrastructure-as-a-service. One of the most interesting advantages of such an approach is the ease of scalability and accompanying cost optimization. In the previous article, I covered the basic concepts of application scaling. This time, we will dive deep into Kubernetes’ autoscaling capabilities with a special focus on the horizontal type.

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