I create a kubernetes cluster with 1 node minimum and 3 maximum. At first the cluster has only 1 node but right after the first deployment (despite new pods having no resources requests) it scale to 3 nodes and extra nodes have no pods (apart from system). What’s the logic behind this autoscale?
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