Using Schedule-Based Autoscaling

On Compute Cloud@Customer,

Autoscaling instance pools enables you to effectively manage instance resource use.

An instance pool can have an autoscaling configuration and policies that scale the instance pool in the following ways according to a schedule:

• Scale out: add instances

• Scale in: remove instances

• Lifecycle or power action: stop, start, or reboot instances

When an instance pool scales out or scales in, instances are created or terminated as described in Updating an Instance Pool.

Policies define the schedule for autoscaling and the specific actions to take. An autoscaling configuration can have up to 50 schedule-based autoscaling policies, each with a different schedule and target pool size or lifecycle action. An instance pool can have only one autoscaling configuration.

If you manually change the pool size or lifecycle state as described in Updating an Instance Pool and Stopping and Starting Instances in an Instance Pool, autoscaling resets the pool size or lifecycle state to the value that is set in the policy the next time the scheduled autoscaling policy runs.