Cluster Autoscaler

This flavor adds auto-scaling via Cluster Autoscaler.

Specification

Prerequisites

Quickstart completed

Usage

1. Set up autoscaling environment variables

   We recommend using Cluster Autoscaler with the Kubernetes control plane ... version for which it was meant.

   -- Releases · kubernetes/autoscaler

   export CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER_VERSION=v1.29.0
   # Optional: If specified, these values must be explicitly quoted!
   export WORKER_MACHINE_MIN='"1"'
   export WORKER_MACHINE_MAX='"10"'
   

2. Generate cluster yaml

   clusterctl generate cluster test-cluster \
       --kubernetes-version v1.29.1 \
       --infrastructure linode-linode \
       --flavor <controlplane>-cluster-autoscaler > test-cluster.yaml
   

3. Apply cluster yaml

   kubectl apply -f test-cluster.yaml