Scale stateful workloads

Scale your stateful workloads to your evolving container workload requirements.

Before you begin

To run commands against the pre-configured bare metal Kubernetes cluster, make sure you have the following resources:

Locate the Kubernetes cluster name, or ask your Platform Administrator what the cluster name is.
Sign in and generate the kubeconfig file for the Kubernetes cluster if you don't have one.
Use the kubeconfig path of the Kubernetes cluster to replace CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG in these instructions.

To get the required permissions to scale stateful workloads, ask your Organization IAM Admin to grant you the Namespace Admin role (namespace-admin) in your project namespace.

Scale a `StatefulSet` resource

Use the scaling functionality of Kubernetes to appropriately scale the amount of pods running in your StatefulSet resource.

Manually scale the pods of a `StatefulSet` resource

To manually scale your StatefulSet resource, run:

kubectl --kubeconfig CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG -n NAMESPACE \
    scale statefulset STATEFULSET_NAME \
    --replicas NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS

Replace the following:

CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG: the kubeconfig file for the Kubernetes cluster.
NAMESPACE: the project namespace.
STATEFULSET_NAME: the name of the StatefulSet object in which to scale.
NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS: the chosen number of replicated Pod objects in the StatefulSet object.

Scale the pods by making an in-place update

To scale the pods of a StatefulSet resource directly in the manifest file, run:

kubectl --kubeconfig CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG -n NAMESPACE \
    patch statefulsets STATEFULSET_NAME \
    -p '{"spec":{"replicas":NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS}}'