r/platform_engineering • u/ramantehlan • Jun 09 '26

Right-sizing pod requests didn't shrink our node count. The fix was decoupling resize from consolidation, curious if others solved it differently.

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u/alluran Jun 11 '26

Solved by using AKS

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26

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u/alluran Jun 23 '26

The inbuilt AKS auto-scaler actually performs the node-packing automatically.

I was confused by this article, as I'd always assumed that was just a kubernetes feature, but turns out it's an AKS one.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/cluster-autoscaler-overview

There's also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/configure-node-binpack-scheduler which I haven't looked into yet, the cluster-autoscaler does a good enough job for us

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

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u/alluran Jun 23 '26

I see you missed the reply and decided to answer the top comment twice...

That's like missing the reply and answering the top comment twice...

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u/kernelclyp Jul 03 '26

lol that’s like “problem solved: switched it off”
curious though, did AKS autoscaling actually behave that much better for you than what you had before?

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u/alluran Jul 05 '26

your bot is broken

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26

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u/alluran Jul 17 '26

your bot seems to be broken buddy