Workshop #5 - scaling options for applications and clusters in AKS

This is an introduction level workshop that covers scaling options for applications and clusters in AKS and you will learn:

What kind of scaling options are available for applications and clusters in AKS
How to manually scale pods and nodes
What is Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) and how does it work
How cluster autoscaler works
What is Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA) and how to use it to scale your applications

Agenda

Here is the preliminary agenda for the workshops (still work in progress and subject to change):

Welcome
Lab-01 - provision workshop resources (20 min)
Scaling applications in AKS concepts (slides)
Lab-02 - build and deploy test application (xx min)
Lab-03 - create monitoring dashboard for test application
Lab-04 - manually scale applications in AKS
Lab-05 - use Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) to automatically scale applications
Scaling AKS cluster concepts (slides)
Lab-06 - manually scale the node count in an AKS cluster
Lab-07 - use cluster autoscaler to automatically scale an AKS cluster to meet application demands
Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling KEDA (slides)
Lab-08 - Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling KEDA
Lab-09 - use KEDA to autoscale application processing Azure Service Bus Queue
Lab-10 - cleaning up resources