Example on Minikube:
MEMORY=${MEMORY:-40000}
CPUS=${CPUS:-6}
EXTRA_CONFIG="apiserver.enable-admission-plugins=\
LimitRanger,\
NamespaceExists,\
NamespaceLifecycle,\
ResourceQuota,\
ServiceAccount,\
DefaultStorageClass,\
MutatingAdmissionWebhook"
minikube start --driver=kvm2 --memory=$MEMORY --cpus=$CPUS \
--kubernetes-version=v1.28.0 \
--disk-size=30g \
--extra-config="$EXTRA_CONFIG" \
--extra-config=kubelet.authentication-token-webhook=true
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/download/knative-v1.14.0/serving-crds.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/download/knative-v1.14.0/serving-core.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/knative/net-kourier/releases/download/knative-v1.14.0/kourier.yaml
# Install cert-manager
kubectl apply -f ./third_party/cert-manager-latest/cert-manager.yaml
kubectl patch configmap/config-network \
-n knative-serving \
--type merge \
-p '{"data":{"ingress.class":"kourier.ingress.networking.knative.dev"}}'
kubectl patch configmap/config-domain \
--namespace knative-serving \
--type merge \
--patch '{"data":{"example.com":""}}'
kubectl get po -n knative-serving
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
activator-58db57894b-ng4s5 1/1 Running 0 27m
autoscaler-79d9fb98c-d79lg 1/1 Running 0 27m
autoscaler-keda-hpa-88cdb8764-kncd6 1/1 Running 0 3m45s
controller-d4645478c-ncqv5 1/1 Running 0 27m
net-kourier-controller-6559c556d7-g8mcg 1/1 Running 0 27m
webhook-dddf6fcff-k99gl 1/1 Running 0 27m
start minikube tunnel on another terminal
# install Prometheus and KEDA
cat ../values.yaml
kube-state-metrics:
metricLabelsAllowlist:
- pods=[*]
- deployments=[app.kubernetes.io/name,app.kubernetes.io/component,app.kubernetes.io/instance]
prometheus:
prometheusSpec:
serviceMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
podMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
grafana:
sidecar:
dashboards:
enabled: true
searchNamespace: ALL
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo add kedacore https://kedacore.github.io/charts
helm repo update
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n default -f values.yaml
helm install keda kedacore/keda --namespace keda --create-namespace
$ kubectl get po
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
alertmanager-prometheus-kube-prometheus-alertmanager-0 2/2 Running 0 117m
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-r7tmw 2/2 Running 0 106m
prometheus-grafana-d5679d5d7-q2pth 3/3 Running 0 118m
prometheus-kube-prometheus-operator-ffc85ddd8-g2wvx 1/1 Running 0 118m
prometheus-kube-state-metrics-8759cbf44-jw49l 1/1 Running 0 118m
prometheus-prometheus-kube-prometheus-prometheus-0 2/2 Running 0 117m
prometheus-prometheus-node-exporter-q5qzv 1/1 Running 0 118m
# Install KEDA autoscaler
ko apply -f config/
Apply the service.yaml and wait for the service to be ready.
ko apply -f ./test/test_images/metrics-test/service.yaml
for i in {1..1000}; do curl -H "Host: metrics-test.default.example.com " http://192.168.39.233:32370; done
kubectl get ksvc
NAME URL LATESTCREATED LATESTREADY READY REASON
metrics-test http://metrics-test.default.example.com metrics-test-00001 metrics-test-00001 True
kubectl get hpa
NAME REFERENCE TARGETS MINPODS MAXPODS REPLICAS AGE
metrics-test-00001 Deployment/metrics-test-00001-deployment 263m/5 (avg) 1 10 10 27m
kubectl get scaledobjects
NAME SCALETARGETKIND SCALETARGETNAME MIN MAX TRIGGERS AUTHENTICATION READY ACTIVE FALLBACK PAUSED AGE
metrics-test-00001 apps/v1.Deployment metrics-test-00001-deployment 1 10 prometheus True True False Unknown 27m
kubectl get po
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
alertmanager-prometheus-kube-prometheus-alertmanager-0 2/2 Running 0 120m
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-29qrb 2/2 Running 0 19s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-86zmd 1/2 Running 0 4s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-gfdjl 2/2 Running 0 4s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-jms64 2/2 Running 0 19s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-kblz4 2/2 Running 0 50s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-kf4pd 2/2 Running 0 19s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-r7tmw 2/2 Running 0 108m
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-rmqs5 2/2 Running 0 50s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-t5mcq 2/2 Running 0 19s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-vd4jm 2/2 Running 0 50s
prometheus-grafana-d5679d5d7-q2pth 3/3 Running 0 120m
prometheus-kube-prometheus-operator-ffc85ddd8-g2wvx 1/1 Running 0 120m
prometheus-kube-state-metrics-8759cbf44-jw49l 1/1 Running 0 120m
prometheus-prometheus-kube-prometheus-prometheus-0 2/2 Running 0 120m
prometheus-prometheus-node-exporter-q5qzv 1/1 Running 0 120m
After traffic is send target replicas are increases to 5. The reason is that we have set a threshold for scaling to be 5 for that metric.
Let's see what Prometheus reports during peak load (kubectl port-forward -n default svc/prometheus-operated 9090:9090
:
The full configuration is shown next:
autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "10"
autoscaling.knative.dev/target: "5"
autoscaling.knative.dev/class: "hpa.autoscaling.knative.dev"
autoscaling.knative.dev/metric: "http_requests_total"
autoscaling.knative.dev/query: "sum(rate(http_requests_total{}[1m]))"
After some cooldown period replicas are terminated back to 1:
kubectl get po
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
alertmanager-prometheus-kube-prometheus-alertmanager-0 2/2 Running 0 125m
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-gfdjl 1/2 Terminating 0 5m42s
metrics-test-00001-deployment-5f797f796d-r7tmw 2/2 Running 0 114m
prometheus-grafana-d5679d5d7-q2pth 3/3 Running 0 126m
prometheus-kube-prometheus-operator-ffc85ddd8-g2wvx 1/1 Running 0 126m
prometheus-kube-state-metrics-8759cbf44-jw49l 1/1 Running 0 126m
prometheus-prometheus-kube-prometheus-prometheus-0 2/2 Running 0 125m
prometheus-prometheus-node-exporter-q5qzv 1/1 Running 0 126m
You can bring your own ScaledObject by either disabling globally the auto-creation mode or by setting the autoscaling.knative.dev/scaled-object-auto-create
annotation to false
in the service (spec.template.metadata
field).
Then at any time you can create the ScaledObject with the desired configuration as follows:
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: ScaledObject
metadata:
annotations:
"autoscaling.knative.dev/class": "hpa.autoscaling.knative.dev"
name: metrics-test-00001
namespace: test
spec:
advanced:
horizontalPodAutoscalerConfig:
name: metrics-test-00001
scalingModifiers: {}
maxReplicaCount: 10
minReplicaCount: 1
scaleTargetRef:
name: metrics-test-00001-deployment
triggers:
- metadata:
namespace: test
query: sum(rate(http_requests_total{namespace="test"}[1m]))
serverAddress: http://prometheus-operated.default.svc:9090
threshold: "5"
type: prometheus
The annotation for the scaling class is required so reconciliation is triggered for the HPA that is generated by KEDA.