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Difference between Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling in K8s?

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What's K8?

K8s Is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

What's Scaling?

Scaling is the process of modifying the number of running instances of a workload to handle changes in demand, traffic, or resource requirements like CPU-Ram .. etc. 

Difference between Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling

Vertical Scaling

  • Also, known as scaling up
  • Mean adding more resources (CPU, memory, storage) to node / upgrading the hardware specifications.

Horizontal Scaling

  • Also, known as scaling out
  • Mean adding more nodes or pods to the system.


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