Hi <@U016WKMFLL9> In cloud we have Autoscaling fea...
# rke2e
echoing-daybreak-71327
07/24/2026, 8:25 AMHi @creamy-pencil-82913 In cloud we have Autoscaling feature, Similar we want to create this on bare metal on a single heavry physical server. As per official documentation we are going to do Harvestor installation on physical server and then deploy RKE2 through Rancher. Is there any ways that we can achieve a scenario were if my pods are pending the nodes (vms) inside the Harvestor gets scale up and down ?
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creamy-pencil-82913
07/24/2026, 4:48 PMCluster autoscaler with rancher provider
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echoing-daybreak-71327
07/24/2026, 11:13 PMBut we want to achieve Autoscaling of worker nodes
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creamy-pencil-82913
07/24/2026, 11:43 PMYes. It's literally part of the Kubernetes autoscaler project. https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/rancher/README.md
creamy-pencil-82913
07/24/2026, 11:44 PMShould turn up in a cursory Google search
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echoing-daybreak-71327
07/25/2026, 12:28 AMOkay sure will start testing it in lab environment
echoing-daybreak-71327
07/25/2026, 12:29 AMThe supported cloud provider plugins here is Rancher means the cluster needs to be provisioned using Rancher in order to support autoscaling
Supported cloud provider list for Cluster Autoscaler: Docs: github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/…/README.md
echoing-daybreak-71327
07/25/2026, 12:30 AMPlease check if we have Rancher in the list means we can also implement worker node autoscaling using the Cluster Autoscalaer
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creamy-pencil-82913
07/25/2026, 5:13 AMYes, you need to be provisioning your nodes via rancher. In your case using harvester as the infrastructure provider. If you're not using rancher then I'm curious why you're asking here.
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echoing-daybreak-71327
07/25/2026, 11:31 AMOkay Sure @creamy-pencil-82913
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