Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Developer Certification Study Guide – Autoscaler
What is the Autoscaler?
It’s a marketplace service that automatically scale bound application based on these configurations:
- CPU utilization
- HTTP Throughput
- HTTP Latency
- Time schedules
Autoscaler on PCF Marketplace
How would you use it?
It’s very useful to ensure that enough application instances is available to serve requests, and also to ensure no over allocation when request number is low.
What can you configure?
We can configure number of minimum and maximum instances based on CPU utilization, HTTP throughput per second, and HTTP latency time.
We also can schedule number of minimum and maximum instances based on date, time, and day of the week.
PCF Autoscaler Management Setting
Screenshot of PCF Autoscaler Scaling Rules Options
Do you understand Autoscaler schedules?
Yes, it allows autoscaler to automatically scale number of minimum and maximum application instances based on date, time, and day of the week.
Screenshot of PCF Autoscaler Scheduler Setting
Review Test
Test your knowledge on PCF Autoscaler:
Reference:
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Official Documentation – Using Autoscaler
