Kubernetes debug autoscaler issues

To understand what’s going on on the market, it’s useful to apply to open positions from time to time.

This provides an opportunity to:

• figure out your weak spots
• understand fair pay for your skills and knowledge
• solve interesting technical challenges

One of such interesting technical challenges which I’ve received was to draw a decision tree how Kubernetes autoscaler can be debugged in cloud provider.

I came up with the draw.io scheme, and I thought it might be useful for someone:

You can also check scheme in .drawio format from my Google drive: troubleshooting-autoscaler