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create horizontalpodautoscalers
Creating a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a high minReplicas floor forces a target workload to scale up at once, with no metrics-server required, driving resource exhaustion or multiplying the replicas of a privileged pod template.
- API Group
- autoscaling
- Scope
- namespaced
- Audit Level
- Request
Escalation Paths
Create a HorizontalPodAutoscaler targeting a workload with a high minReplicas floor
The controller scales the target to minReplicas immediately, with no metrics-server or metric data required
Used for resource exhaustion, or to multiply the replicas of a workload whose pod template already carries elevated privileges
Additional rights needed:
none