Scale Kubernetes Deployment
Integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes clusters, enabling DevOps teams to automate complex scaling tasks.
Reduce complexity
Automate node adjustments and resource allocation to streamline Kubernetes scaling, reducing complexity and manual effort.
Maintain performance
Ensure high availability and fault tolerance with automated workflows, dynamically balancing loads and maintaining consistent performance.
Improve security
Boost security and monitoring with automated policy enforcement and comprehensive data logging, effectively managing increased data volume and complexity.
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Problem
Managing the complexity of scaling clusters is a major challenge. It involves increasing the number of nodes while ensuring that networking, storage, and other resources scale appropriately. High availability and fault tolerance requires advanced load balancing and redundancy strategies. Resource management becomes more complex, as teams must allocate CPU, memory, and storage efficiently across more pods and services. Security concerns increase with a larger attack surface, and consistent security policies must be maintained. Monitoring and logging become more challenging, needing robust solutions to handle more data and provide actionable insights.
Solution
PagerDuty Automation's Kubernetes plugins enhance its capability to manage the challenges of scaling Kubernetes environments. These plugins integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes clusters, enabling DevOps teams to automate complex scaling tasks. Teams can dynamically adjust node counts, manage resource allocation, and ensure high availability through automated workflows.
Technical Job Steps
Check Resource Usage
A Rundeck job uses kubectl to get current CPU/memory usage from Prometheus or directly from the Kubernetes metrics API.
Decide Scaling Action:
Based on the resource usage, the job decides whether to scale up or down.
Scale Deployment::
Periodically clean up old logs that are no longer needed based on retention policies. (Cost Reduction, SE)
Notification
Send a notification (email, Slack, etc.) about the scaling action taken.
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