Monitoring Mastery | Deploying K8s Metrics Server | Labs Live | Equinix Developers

Chris Privitere, Senior Software Engineer at Equinix, walks us through Metrics Server on Kubernetes, hosted by Walt Ribeiro, Senior Developer Advocate. The Metrics Server is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines. We can use that data to know when to scale our or when to scale up our configuration.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Equinix
00:06:09 - Introduction to Metric Server Installation Using Helm
00:11:05 - Declarative workflows and automated installations with Kubernetes
00:16:21 - Prometheus Endpoints and Performance Stats
00:21:36 - Horizontal and Vertical Scaling in Kubernetes
00:26:42 - The Vertical Pod Auto Scaler and its Risks
00:31:38 - Vertical Scaling with VPA and HPA
00:37:22 - Docker Stacks and Docker Swarm
00:42:33 - Scaling Custom Resources in Kubernetes
00:48:02 - Signing Off

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