Autoscaling configuration

EKS Anywhere cluster yaml autoscaling specification reference

EKS Anywhere supports autoscaling worker node groups using the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler . The Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler Curated Package is an image and helm chart installed via the Curated Packages Controller

The helm chart utilizes the Cluster Autoscaler clusterapi mode to scale resources.

Configure an EKS Anywhere worker node group to be picked up by a Cluster Autoscaler deployment by adding autoscalingConfiguration block to the workerNodeGroupConfiguration.

    apiVersion: anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/v1alpha1
    kind: Cluster
    metadata:
      name: my-cluster-name
    spec:
      workerNodeGroupConfigurations:
        - name: md-0
          autoscalingConfiguration:
            minCount: 1
            maxCount: 5
          machineGroupRef:
            kind: VSphereMachineConfig
            name: worker-machine-a
        - name: md-1
          autoscalingConfiguration:
            minCount: 1
            maxCount: 3
          machineGroupRef:
            kind: VSphereMachineConfig
            name: worker-machine-b
          count: 1

Note that if no count is specified for the worker node group it will default to the autoscalingConfiguration.minCount value.

EKS Anywhere automatically applies the following annotations to your MachineDeployment objects for worker node groups with autoscaling enabled. The Cluster Autoscaler component uses these annotations to identify which node groups to autoscale. If a node group is not autoscaling as expected, check for these annotations on the MachineDeployment to troubleshoot.

cluster.x-k8s.io/cluster-api-autoscaler-node-group-min-size: <minCount>
cluster.x-k8s.io/cluster-api-autoscaler-node-group-max-size: <maxCount>