[Feature Request] Autoscaling at nodepool level

[Shaybs]

Hi Microsoft team,

So our company is using EKS and AKS at the moment. However, we have an architecture where we are using two completely different nodepools. We are now seeking to make the nodepools autoscale. However, the scale-down-utilization-threshold is set at the cluster level. Whereas we require different settings for scaling down thresholds because the lower end of the nodepools' utilisation is very different (i.e. 0.15 for one nodepool and over 0.4 for the other) for more efficiency. I also think this feature would be incredibly beneficial to other users/companies.

Sincerely yours,
Shuaib

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[palma21]

Added the feature request tracker, we'd love to, unfortunately the upstream Cluster Autoscaler project doesn't have that concept and the settings/profile are done at the component level which affect all targeted node groups, we are however working upstream to the community to get this capability and architecture change considered upstream.

[Shaybs]

@palma21 Thanks, we'd deeply appreciate the addition of the feature as would many other AKS users.