Question: The Kineteco Web App is running on AKS. To meet a spike in demand, the horizontal pod autoscaler recently provisioned additional pods, which are no longer needed. What should you do to scale down unnecessary pods?

  1. Trigger scale down in Azure Container Instances.
  2. Trigger scale down in the HPA from the Azure CLI.
  3. Manually deprovision unneeded pods.
  4. Do nothing. HPA will initiate scale down automatically.

Answer: The correct answer of the above question is Option D:Do nothing. HPA will initiate scale down automatically.