Stupid Simple Scalability

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This post will define and explain software scalability in Kubernetes and look at different scalability types. Then we will present three autoscaling methods in Kubernetes: HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler), VPA (Vertical Pod Autoscaler), and CA (Cluster Autoscaler).

Scalability Explained

To understand the different concepts in software scalability, let’s take a real-life example.