Scaling containers and Kubernetes

As the demand for your application may grow, you will need to scale the application. Scaling the application can be done in multiple ways and different components can be scaled:

The preceding diagram shows you the different ways to scale your application or cluster, which we will discuss over the upcoming subsections.

Scaling pods manually

Pods can easily be scaled by updating the number of replicas. Try getting your pods by using the kubectl get pods command and increase the number of replicas by using the following command:

kubectl scale --replicas=[number of pods] deployment/[deploymentname]

With this command, the pods are scaled up or down depending on the number of replicas. The up or...