Q26 AKS Domain 1 · 20–25% of exam

Which component enables event-driven autoscaling of pods in AKS based on external event sources like Azure Service Bus queue length?

  1. A HPA with custom metrics
  2. B Cluster Autoscaler
  3. C KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) (correct answer)
  4. D VPA

Shortcut: ), scaling pods to zero when idle.

KEDA extends Kubernetes HPA with scalers for external event sources (Service Bus, Event Hubs, Redis, Kafka, etc.), scaling pods to zero when idle.