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Category: Autoscaling Problems

Problems related to autoscaling behavior and policies, including HPA/VPA/Karpenter budget limits or scale failures

IDTitleDescriptionCategoryTechnologyTags
prequel-2025-0105
Medium
Impact: 7/10
Mitigation: 5/10
Karpenter NodePool budget exceeded; Pods cannot be scheduled
Karpenter is used to automatically provision Kubernetes nodes. NodePools can define amaximum budget for total resource usage to prevent unexpectedly expensive cloud bills.When the budget is reached, Karpenter will stop provisioning new nodes and new pods willfail to schedule.
Autoscaling ProblemskarpenterKarpenterKubernetesAutoscalingCapacityBudgets