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Version: 1.3.0

Getting Started

This section covers how to get started with GoKubeDownscaler. You will learn how to install the GoKubeDownscaler and explore the most common patterns to optimize cluster costs. Pages in this section include:

  • Installation: This page explains the installation process using Helm or Kubernetes manifests, and the differences between a constrained installation and a cluster-wide installation.
  • Basic Night Time Saving: This page explains the most used pattern for using GoKubeDownscaler, you will learn how to scale down the cluster at night and during the weekends using relative timespans.
  • Scaling Down for Holidays: This page explains a common pattern for scaling down workloads during holidays, you will learn how to use absolute timespans to scale down the cluster during specific date ranges.
  • On Demand Startup: This page explains one of the most effective patterns, you will learn how to use boolean timespans to keep workloads always scaled down. Scale up will be performed only using excluding annotations. This is an advanced pattern that can be used to achieve the maximum cost savings