Drive-by addressing the HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) question you have. It depends. If you want to scale on other metrics than cpu/mem, then HPA can do custom

Drive-by addressing the HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) question you have. It depends. If you want to scale on other metrics than cpu/mem, then HPA can do custom metrics too. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/#support-for-custom-metrics https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-... Specifically the Prometheus Adapter.