Vertical Pod Autoscaling for Workloads with Heterogeneous Resource Requirements

[bernot-dev]

Enhancement Description

• One-line enhancement description (can be used as a release note): Improve Vertical Pod Autoscaling for workloads with heterogeneous resource requirements by applying requests/limits per-pod.
• Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal:
• Discussion Link: SIG Autoscaling Oct. 14, 2024
• Primary contact (assignee): @bernot-dev
• Responsible SIGs: sig-autoscaling
• Enhancement target (which target equals to which milestone):
  • Alpha release target (x.y): 1.35
  • Beta release target (x.y): 1.36
  • Stable release target (x.y): 1.38
• Alpha
  • KEP (k/enhancements) update PR(s):
  • Code (k/k) update PR(s):
  • Docs (k/website) update PR(s):

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[bernot-dev]

/sig autoscaling

[bernot-dev]

/assign

[mrueg]

fwiw, there's an external controller that might implement some of the features: https://github.com/DataDog/extendeddaemonset?tab=readme-ov-file#overwrite-containers-pod-resources-for-a-specific-node

[alvaroaleman]

@mrueg thanks for the pointer. From a quick look, while that allows to override per-node requests it does not have any sort of per-node vertical autoscaling or did I miss it?