Kubernetes Horizontal Custom Metrics Autoscaling Walkthrough

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• Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Process

Install Prometheus as described here:

Prometheus Installation with Helm

Install Prometheus Pushgateway and configure it as a Prometheus target with a Prometheus Operator ServiceMonitor as described here:

Prometheus Pushgateway Installation

Prometheus Pushgateway will be used to manually or programmatically publish custom metrics with a CLI script similar to publish-metric.

Install Prometheus adapter for Kubernetes Metrics API as described here:

Prometheus Adapter for Kubernetes Metrics APIs Helm Installation