We're excited to announce the release of Smart Scaler 2.15.0, our latest update that is live as of May 28, 2025 is aimed at enhancing predictive scaling capabilities in Kubernetes environments. This version introduces new features and improvements designed to optimize resource utilization, reduce costs, and provide better visibility into your cluster operations.

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.

Smart Scaler comes with Smart Sizing, which involves adjusting resource requests and limits to ensure your applications have the optimal amount of resources to operate efficiently. This helps prevent overprovisioning, which can unnecessarily increase costs, and underprovisioning, which may lead to performance issues.

Key Highlights in Smart Scaler 2.15.0

Agent Monitoring Enhancements

A key enhancement in this release is the significant improvement in how the Smart Scaler management console tracks the application status. With more robust fallback mechanisms and better handling of service disruptions, Smart Scaler now ensures continuous and reliable operation. 

For more information, see Track Deployed Agents. 

Node Scaling 

Smart Scaler 2.15.0 introduces improved logic for handling workloads. This helps maintain more consistent and effective scaling decisions across varying deployment sizes. 

For more information, see Monitor Node Scaling. 

Key Highlights in Smart Scaler Agent 2.9.21 

Support for Existing Secret 

The Smart Scaler Agent supports existing secret configuration to securely access the clientSecret. You can securely store the clientSecret and reference it as existingSecret in the ss-agents-values.yaml file. To configure existingSecret, clientSecret must be removed from the Helm chart. 

For more information, see Configure an Existing Secret. 

Support for External Secrets Operator 

The Smart Scaler Agent supports External Secrets Operator to securely synchronize secrets from secret management systems such as HashiCorp Vault into Kubernetes. The External Secrets Operator object can be configured in the ss-agents-values.yaml file. To configure the External Secrets Operator, clientSecret must be removed from the Helm chart. 

For more information, see Configure an External Secrets Operator. 

Getting Started 

Existing Smart Scaler users can upgrade to version 2.15.0 and agent version 2.9.21 through our standard upgrade process. New users can install our Smart Scaler agent using Helm. 

For detailed installation instructions and documentation, visit our Smart Scaler documentation. 

We encourage all users to upgrade to the latest version to take advantage of these new features and improvements.