> This means we are designing for a waste of 30%. Another reason for using conservative target utilizations is that the HPA often works with a response time of

> This means we are designing for a waste of 30%. Another reason for using conservative target utilizations is that the HPA often works with a response time of a minute or more. This is one of the many things that's really wrong with Kubernetes. A big selling point of it is binpacking; not wasting resources, but it can't even achieve that. You are just overcomplicating your infrastructure without the big win of almost-perfect resource utilization.