SIG Autoscaling Project Updates
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 · Nov 10, 2026 · 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254
With Jack Francis, Jason Deal, Kuba Tużnik
The continued embrace of Kubernetes as a platform for AI workloads has presented new challenges for ensuring that clusters and workloads can scale and make efficient use of hardware. There's lots of updates and forward-looking news to share about how the various projects within the SIG are solving these problems. In addition to providing project updates for Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, VPA, and HPA, we'll provide a thorough update to the SIG's effort to integrate infrastructure autoscaling into active efforts to nativize AI workloads on Kubernetes: DRA, Workload/Topology Aware Scheduling; and how we're building new abstractions to standardize core dependencies betweeen Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter. Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the the SIG's plans to tackle major AI/ML use cases, ensuring we can meet the needs of workload scaling on Kubernetes now and into the future.