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In this section, you’ll learn how to install and use the Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler on Rancher custom clusters using AWS EC2 Auto Scaling Groups.
The cluster autoscaler is a tool that automatically adjusts the size of the Kubernetes cluster when one of the following conditions is true:
To prevent your pod from being evicted, set a priorityClassName: system-cluster-critical property on your pod spec.
priorityClassName: system-cluster-critical
Cluster Autoscaler is designed to run on Kubernetes master nodes. It can run in the kube-system namespace. Cluster Autoscaler doesn’t scale down nodes with non-mirrored kube-system pods running on them.
kube-system
It’s possible to run a customized deployment of Cluster Autoscaler on worker nodes, but extra care needs to be taken to ensure that Cluster Autoscaler remains up and running.
Cluster Autoscaler provides support to distinct cloud providers. For more information, go to cluster-autoscaler supported cloud providers.
For details on running the cluster autoscaler on Amazon cloud provider, refer to this page.