Description
Which component are you using?: Autoscaler for Hetzner, helm-chart
What components does this apply to?
/area cluster-autoscaler
/area helm-charts
Is your feature request designed to solve a problem? If so describe the problem this feature should solve:
Node pools can be used to separate workloads with different scalability requirements, For example, stateless applications can be relatively easily downscaled to one node and it is reasonable to use scale-down-enabled, enforce-node-group-min-size flags for stateless app node pool. Automatic downscaling of stateful applications can create issues. Currently, can define different scaling requirements like scale-down-enabled, enforce-node-group-min-size at Autoscaler/cluster level only.
Describe the solution you'd like:
We need scalability requirements like scale-down-enabled, enforce-node-group-min-size definitions at the pool level:
cat <<EOF | helm upgrade cluster-autoscaler autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler --install --create-namespace -n cluster-autoscaler --version 9.46.6 -f -
cloudProvider: hetzner
autoscalingGroups:
- name: app-pool
minSize: 1
maxSize: 10
instanceType: CPX41
region: NBG1
######## Pool level scalability requirements for stateless applications
scale-down-enabled: true
enforce-node-group-min-size: true
- name: db-pool
minSize: 5
maxSize: 8
instanceType: CPX41 # Uppercase!
region: NBG1 # Uppercase!
######## Pool level scalability requirements for stateful applications
scale-down-enabled: false
enforce-node-group-min-size: false
extraEnv:
HCLOUD_TOKEN: "$HCLOUD_TOKEN"
HCLOUD_CLUSTER_CONFIG: "$HCLOUD_CLUSTER_CONFIG"
HCLOUD_NETWORK: "$HETZNER_NETWORK_ID"
HCLOUD_SSH_KEY: "$HCLOUD_SSH_KEY"
HCLOUD_PUBLIC_IPV4: "false"
HCLOUD_PUBLIC_IPV6: "false"
extraArgs:
######## Existing Autoscaler/system-level scalability requirements
scale-down-enabled: false
enforce-node-group-min-size: false
EOF
Describe any alternative solutions you've considered.:
Deploy multiple Autoscalers in different namespaces, every deployment will manage pools with similar requirements.
Additional context.:
Autoscaler configuration: https://oleg.smetan.in/posts/2025-04-15-kubernetes-based-dev-environment-on-hetzner#install-and-configure-node-autoscaler