Unlocking the Potential of KEDA: New Features and Best Practices

The presentation discusses the importance of certificate management and web hook validation in Keda, a Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaler.

• Encrypting internal traffic inside the cluster is necessary to prevent unauthorized access and scaling issues
• Keda introduces mechanisms for automatically generating TLS certificates and supports the use of custom CA
• Validation webhooks prevent scaling conflicts and ensure that required metrics are present
• Managed identities are a secure way to connect to cloud provider infrastructure
• Exposing metrics is critical for monitoring Keda's performance

The speaker demonstrates how Keda scales a RabbitMQ deployment based on queue length, and shows a demo dashboard with sample metrics that can be used for monitoring

KEDA is an open-source project that allows users to scale their applications based on the number of events rather than resource usage. This makes it perfect for event-driven architectures and workloads in general, where cost-saving is essential. Furthermore, KEDA provides autoscaling (including scaling to zero) that allows for better utilization of resources by only running pods when there is an actual workload. In this talk, we will provide an overview of the project and its current features and discuss new and upcoming developments. Some of the new features are: - Improved monitoring capabilities - Performance improvements - Improved validation of resources - The possibility to run multi-tenant installations We will discuss best practices and also describe the new features to help attendees better understand how to use KEDA to scale their applications effectively and take advantage of the latest developments in the project. A demo will also be provided to show the KEDA in action.