How HPA works with Ocean

When your cluster load increases, Kubernetes creates more pod replicas through HPA. Ocean then launches new nodes so those pods can be scheduled. Kubernetes handles pod scaling, and Ocean provides the node capacity needed to support that scaling.

What Ocean does

Ocean acts as the cluster autoscaler. It provisions additional nodes when your pods need more capacity and removes nodes when they’re no longer needed. Ocean doesn’t influence HPA policies and doesn’t create or manage HPA objects.

Summary

• Kubernetes HPA decides how many pods to create.

• Ocean’s autoscaler decides how many nodes are needed to run those pods.

• Ocean does not provide an HPA policy of its own.