KEDA, with Tom Kerkhove

Aug 26, 2021

KEDA, the Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler, is a project that adds superpowers to the Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaler, including zero-to-one scaling. Celebrate KEDA reaching Incubation in the CNCF by listening to an interview with maintainer Tom Kerkhove from Codit. But first, learn about Craig’s worst concert experience.

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Chatter of the week

• Correction to Episode 158: Mike Richards is no longer host of Jeopardy!
  • Troy meets LeVar Burton
  • The Chase (USA)
  • The Chase (UK)
• The Judds
• Charlie Watts: Rolling Stones drummer dies at 80
  • The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang tour
  • Moving stage

News of the week

• KEDA moves to CNCF Incubation
• Kubescape from ARMO Security
• GKE adds OIDC identity provider and gVNIC support
• Gloo Mesh 1.1
  • Istio security announcement
  • Envoy security announcement
• Cron jobs and timezones in Kubernetes

Links from the interview

• KEDA: Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling
• Bruges
• Codit
• Azure Service Fabric
• Azure Cloud Services
• Horizontal pod autoscaler
  • Custom metrics in HPA (added in Kubernetes 1.6)
• Promitor: bridge between Azure Monitor and Prometheus
• KEDA announcement from Microsoft
• Scaling a deployment
• Scalers
• Microsoft moves KEDA to the CNCF Sandbox
• External scalers
• KEP for adding scale-to-zero to HPA
• Knative scale to zero
• CNCF Sandbox announcement
• Versions 1.0 and 2.0
• Users
• KEDA on GitHub
• Tom Kerkhove on Twitter and his blog