By pawl.focks
I have a simple K8S cluster set up with the autoscaler enabled and one site set up with an HPA. When I run a load test on the site I can see more and more pods being provisioned and the cluster slowly scaling up nodes - in my test it scaled up to a total of 8 nodes.
The problem is that even though the HPA has brought the pods back down to from 20 to 2, it has been several hours and there is no sign of the autoscaler scaling down the cluster again. The only pods running on the new nodes are kube-system daemon sets (do-node-agent, csi-do-node, cpc-bridge-proxy, konnectivity-agent, cilium, kube-proxy)
Can someone point me in the right direction? I have been trying to find an answer but have gotten nowhere useful. I thought that daemon sets were ignored by the autoscaler in scale down decisions. Apologies in advance if this is a simple problem to resolve - I am new to K8S.
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Hi there,
This is quite interesting, usually it should take only a few minutes.
If you were to run the following command:
kubectl get configmap cluster-autoscaler-status -o yaml -n kube-system
Do you see any useful information? Feel free to share the output here after removing any sensitive details.
Best,
Bobby
I have the same issue. The autoscaler does not scale below 2, even though one of the nodes is completely empty except for pods in the kube-system namespace.
I’m having the same issue. I had 10 nodes scaled, I deleted them one by one and managed to put everything within two nodes. The autoscaler only scales up.
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