title: Scheduled scaling for PODs in Kubernetes
body: <p>I have a scaled deployment with predictable load change depends on time. How can I make my deployment prepared to the load (for example, I want to double pods number every evening from 16:00 to 23:00). Does Kubernetes provides such tool?</p>
  
  <p>I know Kubernetes pods are scaling with <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Horizontal Pod Autoscaler</a>, which scales the number of pods based on CPU utilisation or custom metric. But it is reactive approach, I'm looking for proactive.</p>