AHPA: Adaptive Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Systems on Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes

March 07, 2023 · Declared Dead · 🏛 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Authors Zhiqiang Zhou, Chaoli Zhang, Lingna Ma, Jing Gu, Huajie Qian, Qingsong Wen, Liang Sun, Peng Li, Zhimin Tang arXiv ID 2303.03640 Category cs.LG: Machine Learning Cross-listed cs.DC, eess.SY Citations 34 Venue AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Last Checked 5 months ago

Abstract

The existing resource allocation policy for application instances in Kubernetes cannot dynamically adjust according to the requirement of business, which would cause an enormous waste of resources during fluctuations. Moreover, the emergence of new cloud services puts higher resource management requirements. This paper discusses horizontal POD resources management in Alibaba Cloud Container Services with a newly deployed AI algorithm framework named AHPA -- the adaptive horizontal pod auto-scaling system. Based on a robust decomposition forecasting algorithm and performance training model, AHPA offers an optimal pod number adjustment plan that could reduce POD resources and maintain business stability. Since being deployed in April 2021, this system has expanded to multiple customer scenarios, including logistics, social networks, AI audio and video, e-commerce, etc. Compared with the previous algorithms, AHPA solves the elastic lag problem, increasing CPU usage by 10% and reducing resource cost by more than 20%. In addition, AHPA can automatically perform flexible planning according to the predicted business volume without manual intervention, significantly saving operation and maintenance costs.