Scaling Up Infrastructure

This section describes scaling up the infrastructure, for example from xsmall to small to medium, and so on.

Scaling up generally consists of:

  • Changing GKE node pool sizes

  • Changing GKE node pool VM types (machine types)

  • Changing Kubernetes assigned resources

  • Changing Kubernetes pod counts

The process is as follows:

  1. Update your tfvars to the new size: 

    logscale_cluster_size = "medium"

  2. Apply infrastructure changes: 

    terraform apply -target module.gke

  3. Apply the Kubernetes changes: 

    terraform apply -target module.logscale

When the process is complete, clean out any terminated pods from the LogScale Cluster Node Management UI.