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

SHOW NOTES
➡️ Metrics Server = github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server
➡️ Horizontal Pod Autoscale = kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizonta…
➡️ Vertical Pod Autoscale = github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/verti…
➡️ Kind = kind.sigs.k8s.io/
➡️ Prometheus Monitoring System = github.com/prometheus/prometheus
➡️ Vivek Singh's article about autoscaling = deploy.equinix.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-abou…
➡️ Get started with Equinix Metal = deploy.equinix.com/get-started
➡️ How to Deploy your First Server = deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/deploy-first-…