Basically, I'm asking if ReplicaSets have something simillar to the suspend: "true" option for CronJobs but I'm open to other suggestions.
From the official Kubernetes doc
apiVersion: autoscaling/v1
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
name: frontend-scaler
spec:
scaleTargetRef:
kind: ReplicaSet
name: frontend
minReplicas: 3
maxReplicas: 3
targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 50A quick and easy workaround your problem is to have minReplicas and maxReplicas to the same amount.
Also for measuring traffic is better to use prometheus-operator and grafana, you can install them through Helm without any effort or problems.
That way you can achieve better results in scaling up and down
There is no out of box support. But there might be a way to do that using combination of 'kind: PodDisruptionBudget' and 'kind: ResourceQuota'. i havent tried it though