Scale a vSphere Pod Application

You can scale up and down the number of replicas for each application that is running on a Supervisor in vSphere IaaS control plane.

Prerequisites

• Get the IP address of the Kubernetes control plane on the Supervisor from your vSphere administrator.
• Get your user account in vCenter Single Sign-On.
• Verify with your vSphere administrator that you have permissions to access the contexts that you need.

Procedure

1. Authenticate with the Supervisor.

   kubectl vsphere login --server <control plane load balancer IP address> --vsphere-username <vSphere user account name> 

2. Scale up or scale down an application.

   kubectl get deployments
   kubectl scale deployment <deployment-name> --replicas=<number-of-replicas>