Karpenter is an open-source node provisioning project for Kubernetes. A new provider for running Karpenter on Azure Kubernetes Service is now available as an open-source project.
Karpenter improves the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters by:
- Watching for pods that the Kubernetes scheduler has marked as unschedulable
- Evaluating scheduling constraints (resource requests, nodeselectors, affinities, tolerations, and topology spread constraints) requested by the pods
- Provisioning nodes that meet the requirements of the pods
- Scheduling the pods to run on the new nodes
- Removing the nodes when the nodes are no longer needed
To learn more, visit: https://github.com/Azure/karpenter
