How to scale the node pool in a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure

Question

Hi Team,

I have one Kubernetes Cluster in Azure. I want to scale the node pool in the Kubernetes Cluster. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

A node pool is a group of nodes within a cluster that all have the same configuration. Node pools use a NodeConfig specification. Each node in the pool has a Kubernetes node label, cloud.google.com/gke-nodepool, which has the node pool's name as its value. A node pool can contain one or multiple nodes. You can use the below command to scale the node pool.

$ az aks scale --name MyManagedCluster --node-count 3 --resource-group MyResourceGroup