Configuring requests & limits with the HPA at scale, with Alexandre Souza

Alexandre Souza, a senior platform engineer at Getir, shares his expertise in managing large-scale environments and configuring requests, limits, and autoscaling.

He explores the challenges of over-provisioning and under-provisioning and discusses strategies for optimizing resource allocation using tools like Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA).

You will learn:

• How to set appropriate resource requests and limits to balance application performance and cost-efficiency in large-scale Kubernetes environments.

• Strategies for implementing and configuring Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), including scaling policies and behavior management.

• The differences between CPU and memory management in Kubernetes and their impact on workload performance.

• Techniques for leveraging tools like KubeCost and StormForge to automate resource optimization.

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