TLDR DevOps · OPINIONS & TUTORIALS
WHY KUBERNETES AUTOSCALERS KEEP FIGHTING EACH OTHER (AND WHY THE SOLUTION MUST BE AUTONOMOUS)
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Nikhil Kurup argues that HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Karpenter mutate the same workload fields from independent loops, producing four failure modes, including a VPA and HPA death spiral and GitOps drift ping-pong. He calls for a unified, predictive autoscaler with explainable decisions.