We're excited to announce the release of Smart Scaler 2.13.0, our latest update to the intelligent Kubernetes scaling platform. This release brings significant improvements to scalability, usability, and security, helping organizations optimize their Kubernetes environments more effectively than ever before.

What is Smart Scaler?

Smart Scaler is an enterprise-grade solution designed to address the complexities of Kubernetes scaling and resource management. It provides intelligent autoscaling capabilities that go beyond traditional Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) by considering multiple metrics simultaneously and making scaling decisions based on advanced algorithms.

Key Highlights in SmartScaler 2.13.0

New Dashboard Improvements

We've enhanced the Smart Scaler dashboard, providing clearer visualizations of scaling metrics and cluster health. The new interface offers: 

• Improved resource utilization graphs
• Enhanced scaling history and trends
• A new Billing tab is introduced on the dashboard that provides Smart Scaler vCPUs usage and estimated savings. For more details, 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.

Getting Started

Existing SmartScaler users can upgrade to version 2.13.0 through our standard upgrade process. New users can install our Smart Scaler agent using Helm.

For detailed installation instructions and documentation, visit our documentation portal.

Looking Ahead

This release represents another step in our mission to make Kubernetes scaling more intelligent, efficient, and accessible. We're continuously working on new features and improvements based on community feedback and evolving cloud-native practices.

Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, we welcome your feedback on this release!