<p>Can Kubernetes automatically add or reduce the number of pods，when it monitors for increases or decreases in load (i.e. CPU load, traffic)?</p>

<p>If it's possible, how can I configure it?</p>

<p>Auto scaling of pods is not yet available, but it's definitely on our roadmap, as mentioned by Brendan in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/26914911/1925481">a previous answer</a>.</p>

<p>It could actually be easily built outside of the core of Kubernetes, using the public Kubernetes API. If you'd rather wait for someone else to build it, though, it looks like a contributor has <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/proposals/autoscaling.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">started planning a design for one</a>.</p>
