Configuring scaling for AKS
You will note that from our previous exercises, there was no option to automatically scale and resize containers. The only way to change this was to redeploy our container instances and groups. With Kubernetes, this dynamic changes as you can change the scale settings before and after your deployment, and they can be configured to scale manually or automatically. For this exercise, we will run through changing the auto-scale settings of our AKS cluster. Proceed as follows:
- Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
- Navigate to the AKS cluster you created in the previous section. On the left menu, select the Node pools option and click on your deployed
agentpool
node pool, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
- Selecting either the Overview or Configuration pane will present you with the option to change your pool scale settings...