website/_data/glossary/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.yaml

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id: horizontal-pod-autoscaler
name: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
full-link: /docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/
aka:
- HPA
related:
- pod
tags:
- operation
short-description: >
An API resource that automatically scales the number of pod replicas based on targeted CPU
utilization or custom metric targets.
long-description: >
HPA is typically used with replication controllers, deployments or replica sets and cannot be
applied to objects that cannot be scaled, for example DaemonSets.