AKS Learn feedback: does HPA really need pod/container requests & limits?

[mikaelweave]

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Feedback

Looking at this sentence below that originated in some form 7 years ago in the docs:

To use the horizontal pod autoscaler, all containers must have defined CPU requests and limits, and pods must have specified requests.

Do you actually need CPU requests + limits for containers and do pods need specified requests in a general sense? This sentence seems to apply to all HPA scenarios. Are requests/limits required to make the HPA function?

Looking at the kubernetes docs for HPA, it seems limits aren't required and requests are only required if using average utilization.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/tutorial-kubernetes-scale?tabs=azure-cli#autoscale-pods

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articles/aks/tutorial-kubernetes-scale.md

Author

@schaffererin

Document Id

a113b8e9-259a-2a65-2e54-a2661c78ddb5

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• ID: 6ab10c96-1f2f-e48f-a084-b1715156e33f
• Version Independent ID: a113b8e9-259a-2a65-2e54-a2661c78ddb5
• Content: Kubernetes on Azure tutorial - Scale applications in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service
• Content Source: articles/aks/tutorial-kubernetes-scale.md
• Service: azure-kubernetes-service
• GitHub Login: @schaffererin
• Microsoft Alias: schaffererin

[TPavanBalaji]

@mikaelweave
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