<p>I understand the Container Engine is currently on alpha and not yet complete.</p>

<p>From the docs I assume there is no auto-scaling of pods (e.g. depending on CPU load) yet, correct? I'd love to be able to configure a replication controller to automatically add pods (and VM instances) when the average CPU load reaches a defined threshold.</p>

<p>Is this somewhere on the near future roadmap?</p>

<p>Or is it possible to use the Compute Engine Autoscaler for this? (if so, how?)</p>

<p>As we work towards a Beta release, we're definitely looking at integrating the Google Compute Engine AutoScaler.</p>

<p>There are actually two different kinds of scaling:</p>

<ol>
<li>Scaling up/down the number of worker nodes in the cluster depending on # of containers in the cluster</li>
<li>Scaling pods up and down.</li>
</ol>

<p>Since Kubernetes is an OSS project as well, we'd also like to add a Kubernetes native autoscaler that can scale replication controllers.  It's definitely something that's on the roadmap.  I expect we will actually have multiple autoscaler implementations, since it can be very application specific...</p>
