Elastic Scaling Practices in Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Environments
To overcome native HPA limits and business‑specific constraints in a fully containerized, cloud‑native Kubernetes environment, we implemented a dual‑threshold water‑level and scheduled scaling engine, hybrid‑cloud ClusterAutoScale, mixed‑deployment resource prioritization, and comprehensive Prometheus‑based observability, achieving higher utilization, lower costs, and a roadmap toward deeper optimization and AIOps.