KARPENTER VS CLUSTER AUTOSCALER: WHICH KUBERNETES AUTOSCALING TOOL IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

Autoscaling is essential for running efficient, cost-effective Kubernetes workloads in production. Two popular tools available for scaling nodes in Kubernetes clusters are Karpenter and the Cluster Autoscaler. Although they share the same goal—automatically adjusting the size of your cluster based on workload needs—they function quite different