Phase 10 · Cloud Platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
TopicsAuto Scaling
Part of the DevOps Roadmap.
Summary
Automatically adding or removing compute capacity based on demand — the cloud-native equivalent of Kubernetes' Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, but at the level of entire virtual machine instances.
How to Learn This
- 1Explore an auto scaling group's configuration options (min/max instances, scaling triggers).
- 2Learn why auto scaling requires a load balancer in front of it to distribute traffic to new instances.
- 3Understand the trade-off between scaling aggressively (cost) and scaling conservatively (risk of being under-provisioned).
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