Auto scaling for Google container engine

Question

Can GKE (Google Container Engine) do autoscaling? I know that it allows manual adjustment of node replication, but can it be configured some how to detect load and replicate automatically?

Answer 1

Updating my answer as Kubernetes now has this feature.

Kubernetes now supports horizontal scaling of Pods - http://kubernetes.io/v1.1/docs/user-guide/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.html

If you mean autoscaling of the nodes in GCE rather than the pods running inside it, then yes it can - you can turn on autoscaling for a managed instance group such as GCE - see the docs below but the short version is just edit the instance group to enable autoscaling.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/