<p>I'm creating a HorizontalPodAutoscaler in Kubernetes and I need to configure the downscale stabilization window to be smaller than the default. The code used and error are below:</p>

<pre><code>apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
    name: busy-autoscaler
spec:
    behavior:
        scaleDown:
            stabilizationWindowSeconds: 10
    scaleTargetRef:
        apiVersion: apps/v1
        kind: Deployment
        name: busy-worker
    minReplicas: 1
    maxReplicas: 2
    metrics:
        - type: Resource
          resource:
              name: cpu
              target:
                  type: Utilization
                  averageUtilization: 50
</code></pre>

<pre><code>$ kubectl create -f some-autoscale.yaml
error validating "some-autoscale.yaml": error validating data: ValidationError(HorizontalPodAutoscaler.spec): unknown field "behavior" in io.k8s.api.autoscaling.v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscalerSpec
</code></pre>

<p>My understanding is that the <code>behavior</code> field should be supported from Kubernetes 1.17 as stated in the <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/#support-for-configurable-scaling-behavior" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs</a>. Running <code>kubectl version</code> gives the following output:</p>

<pre><code>Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"17", GitVersion:"v1.17.1", GitCommit:"d224476cd0730baca2b6e357d144171ed74192d6", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-01-14T21:04:32Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"17", GitVersion:"v1.17.0", GitCommit:"70132b0f130acc0bed193d9ba59dd186f0e634cf", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-12-07T21:12:17Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
</code></pre>

<p>The <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.17/#horizontalpodautoscalerspec-v2beta2-autoscaling" rel="nofollow noreferrer">API reference</a> doesn't have the <code>behavior</code> field for <code>v2beta2</code> which makes this more confusing.</p>

<p>I'm running Minikube 1.6.2 locally. What am I doing wrong?</p>

cjm
<p>Client Version: v1.20.2
Server Version: v1.18.9-eks-d1db3c</p>
<p>Make sure <code>kubectl api-versions</code> and your cluster supports autoscaling/v2beta2</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: {{ template &quot;ks.fullname&quot; . }}-keycloak
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: {{ template &quot;ks.fullname&quot; . }}-keycloak
  minReplicas: {{ .Values.keycloak.hpa.minpods }}
  maxReplicas: {{ .Values.keycloak.hpa.maxpods }}
  metrics:
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: memory
      target:
        type: Utilization
        averageUtilization: {{ .Values.keycloak.hpa.memory.averageUtilization }}
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: cpu
      target:
        type: Utilization
        averageUtilization: {{ .Values.keycloak.hpa.cpu.averageUtilization }}
  behavior:
    scaleDown:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: {{ .Values.keycloak.hpa.stabilizationWindowSeconds }}
      policies:
        - type: Pods
          value: 1
          periodSeconds: {{ .Values.keycloak.hpa.periodSeconds }}
</code></pre>
