Recently, I've been having a look around at autoscaling options for applications deployed onto Kubernetes. There are quite a few emerging options. I decided to give KEDA a spin. KEDA stands for Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling, and that's exactly what it does.
Introducing KEDA
KEDA is a tool you can deploy into your Kubernetes cluster which will autoscale Pods based on an external event or trigger. Events are collected by a set of Scalers, which integrate with a range of applications like: