Nomad Autoscaler Cron Strategy
A cron-like strategy plugin, where task groups are scaled based on a predefined scheduled.
job "webapp" {
...
group "demo" {
...
scaling {
...
policy {
check "business hours" {
source = "prometheus"
strategy "cron" {
count = 2
period_business = "* * 9-17 * * mon-fri * -> 5"
period_weekend = "* * * * * sat,sun * -> 1"
}
}
}
}
}
}
In the example above, every weekday between 9 and 16:59, the number of instances is increased to 5 to handle the large traffic during operating hours. On the weekend, the number drops to 1. The rest of the time, the value is taken from the default count = 2
