Metrics Server¶

Metrics Server is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

Metrics Server collects resource metrics from Kubelets and exposes them in Kubernetes apiserver through Metrics API for use by Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Vertical Pod Autoscaler. Metrics API can also be accessed by kubectl top, making it easier to debug autoscaling pipelines.

Usage¶

Metrics Server can be deployed by enabling the add-on via the following.

enable_metrics_server = true

You can optionally customize the Helm chart that deploys External DNS via the following configuration.

  enable_metrics_server = true

  metrics_server = {
    name          = "metrics-server"
    chart_version = "3.10.0"
    repository    = "https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/metrics-server/"
    namespace     = "kube-system"
    values        = [templatefile("${path.module}/values.yaml", {})]
  }

Verify metrics-server pods are running.

$ kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS       AGE
metrics-server-6f9cdd486c-njh8b        1/1     Running   1 (2d2h ago)   2d7h