6.1 Scaling Pods and nodes

Scaling Pods.

To scale Pods, update the replica count in the YAML and apply:

Or, imperatively with

kubectl scale deployment timeserver --replicas=6

Track the rollout:

$ kubectl get pods -w
NAME                         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
timeserver-dd88988f5-4cshb   1/1     Running   0          42s
timeserver-dd88988f5-5b4r6   1/1     Running   0          84s
timeserver-dd88988f5-6czvt   0/1     Pending   0          42s
timeserver-dd88988f5-b6ph7   0/1     Pending   0          42s
timeserver-dd88988f5-m7xss   0/1     Pending   0          42s
timeserver-dd88988f5-qr94x   1/1     Running   0          42s