Workshop #5: scaling options for applications and clusters in AKS

Happy New Year, dear community!

I hope you all recharted your batteries and ready to learn more AKS in 2022.

This time we focus on scaling in AKS and you will learn:

• What kind of scaling options are available for applications and clusters in AKS
• How to manually scale pods and how Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) works
• How to manually scale nodes and how cluster autoscaler works
• What is Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA) and how to use it to scale your applications

Agenda:
Workshop is organized as a combination of theoretical blocks with slides and labs. The preliminary agenda can be found here https://github.com/evgenyb/aks-workshops/tree/main/05-scaling-options-in-aks#agenda

Estimated time for workshop completion is between 3 and 4 hours.

Prerequisites:
Please spend some time before the workshop and make sure that you have installed/registered/configured all prerequisites.

Detailed information about prerequisites can be found https://github.com/evgenyb/aks-workshops/blob/main/05-scaling-options-in-aks/prerequisites.md but in short, you need:

• Microsoft Teams
• Visual Studio Code with ARM and Bicep plugins installed
• Windows Terminal (for those of you who are on Windows)
• an active Azure account
• installed az cli

This workshop is rated level 200 with a target audience of developers and architects working with AKS.

Looking forward to meeting you!

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Evgeny Borzenin
Microsoft Azure MVP

Blog: https://borzenin.com/blog
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgeny-borzenin-8b13a4/