Kubernetes Metrics Server

External

• https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server

Internal

• Metrics in Kubernetes
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling

Overview

The Kubernetes metrics server, also referred to as "metrics-server" is a lightweight, short-term, in-memory server to collect and expose resource metrics.

TODO

• Install the metric server for EKS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.html