Kubernetes scaling up not fast enough (for K8 1.17 or below)
Not really.
Assuming you are referring to HPAs, you can define a behavior scaleUp Policy only if you are using K8s 1.18 or later (v2beta2 HPA API). For example:
behavior: scaleDown: stabilizationWindowSeconds: 300 policies: - type: Percent value: 100 periodSeconds: 15 scaleUp: 👈 stabilizationWindowSeconds: 0 policies: - type: Percent value: 100 periodSeconds: 15 - type: Pods value: 4 periodSeconds: 15 selectPolicy: Max
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