Release Notes for Smart Scaler Version 2.13.0
Release Date: 11th March 2025
Smart Scaler solves the problem of runaway costs of Kubernetes clusters that are heavily over-provisioned to compensate for the reactive and time consuming tuning required for vanilla HPA.
We continue to add new features and enhancements to Smart Scaler.
What's New 🔈​
Dashboard Enhancements​
The Smart Scaler dashboard contains the following enhancements:
- Services Error Rates is introduced in the Overview tab of the dashboard that provides errors of each microservice of your application.
- A new Billing tab is introduced on the dashboard that provides Smart Scaler vCPUs usage and estimated savings. For more information, see monitor the billing information.
Agent Configuration Changes​
From this version, we have introduced a new default application definition
to simplify the process of onboarding applications to Smart Scaler. You only need to
identify the namespaces that contain the applications you want Smart Scaler to manage. To
do this, open the ss-agent-values.yaml file downloaded from the management console's Agents page, and
add the list of namespaces to the namespaceAnnotationKey label.
After the namespaces are defined, the Inference Agent assumes that all deployments in each specified namespace should be managed as a unit by Smart Scaler.
If this setup matches your deployment pattern, this is all you need to do to onboard your applications.
However, to gain more flexibility over the application, you can remove the default ConfigMap and reconfigure it.
For more information, see the quick-start guide and Configure Smart Scaler.