Configuring Scaling for AKS

You may have noted in the previous exercises that there was no option to automatically scale and resize containers. The only way to change this is to redeploy your container instances and groups. With Kubernetes, this dynamic changes as you can change the scale settings before and after your deployment, and these settings can be configured to scale manually or automatically. In the following exercise, you will run through changing the autoscale settings of your AKS cluster. Follow these steps:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
2. Navigate to the AKS cluster you created in the previous section. On the left menu, select the Node pools option and click on your deployed agentpool node pool, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 14.48: Configuring a Kubernetes cluster – Node pools

3. Select the Overview pane and you will be presented with the option to change your pool scale settings...