K8s Horizontal pod autoscaling not working - spring-boot

Question

I have following k8s manifest:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: springboot-k8s-svc
spec:
selector:
app: spring-boot-k8s
ports:
- protocol: "TCP"
port: 8080
targetPort: 8080
type: NodePort
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: spring-boot-k8s
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: spring-boot-k8s
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: spring-boot-k8s
spec:
containers:
- name: spring-boot-k8s
image: springboot-k8s-example:1.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
Currently I have following things running in my minikube:
$ kubectl get all
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 4h52m
I start my dummy spring boot application:
$ kubectl apply -f deployment-n-svc.yaml
service/springboot-k8s-svc created
deployment.apps/spring-boot-k8s created
This app seem to start as desired appropriately:
$ kubectl get all
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/spring-boot-k8s-bccc4c557-7wbrn 1/1 Running 0 5s
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 4h53m
service/springboot-k8s-svc NodePort 10.99.136.27 <none> 8080:30931/TCP 5s
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.apps/spring-boot-k8s 1/1 1 1 5s
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE
replicaset.apps/spring-boot-k8s-bccc4c557 1 1 1 5s
When I try to hit REST end point, I get the desired output:
$ curl http://192.168.49.2:30931/message
OK!
Now I tried to autoscale the app:
$ kubectl autoscale deployment spring-boot-k8s --min=1 --max=5 --cpu-percent=10
horizontalpodautoscaler.autoscaling/spring-boot-k8s autoscaled
Started watching the hpa just started as shown below command. It seems to have started:
$ watch -n 1 kubectl get hpa
Every 1.0s: kubectl get hpa
NAME REFERENCE TARGETS MINPODS MAXPODS REPLIC
AS AGE
horizontalpodautoscaler.autoscaling/spring-boot-k8s Deployment/spring-boot-k8s <unknown>/10% 1 5 1
8m10s
Then I tried apache bench HTTP load test utility to create load on the spring boot server to check if k8s increases the number of pods:
$ab -n 1000000 -c 100 http://192.168.49.2:30931/message
However this did not increase number of pods. What I am missing?
PS:
When I kill ab command in with Ctrl+C, it gives following output (notice aprox 5s processing time per request):
$ ab -n 1000000 -c 100 http://192.168.49.2:32215/message
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking 192.168.49.2 (be patient)
^C
Server Software:
Server Hostname: 192.168.49.2
Server Port: 32215
Document Path: /message
Document Length: 4 bytes
Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 35.650 seconds
Complete requests: 601
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 81736 bytes
HTML transferred: 2404 bytes
Requests per second: 16.86 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 5931.751 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 59.318 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 2.24 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 1.5 0 7
Processing: 5001 5004 4.7 5003 5022
Waiting: 5000 5004 3.9 5002 5019
Total: 5001 5006 5.4 5003 5024
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 5003
66% 5005
75% 5007
80% 5009
90% 5013
95% 5020
98% 5023
99% 5023
100% 5024 (longest request)
Update
As asked in comments, here is output of some more commands:
$ kubectl describe hpa spring-boot-k8s
Warning: autoscaling/v2beta2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler is deprecated in v1.23+, unavailable in v1.26+; use autoscaling/v2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler
Name: spring-boot-k8s
Namespace: default
Labels: <none>
Annotations: <none>
CreationTimestamp: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 01:58:06 +0530
Reference: Deployment/spring-boot-k8s
Metrics: ( current / target )
resource cpu on pods (as a percentage of request): <unknown> / 10%
Min replicas: 1
Max replicas: 5
Deployment pods: 1 current / 0 desired
Conditions:
Type Status Reason Message
---- ------ ------ -------
AbleToScale True SucceededGetScale the HPA controller was able to get the target's current scale
ScalingActive False FailedGetResourceMetric the HPA was unable to compute the replica count: failed to get cpu utilization: unable to get metrics for resource cpu: no metrics returned from resource metrics API
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Warning FailedGetResourceMetric 35m (x500 over 16h) horizontal-pod-autoscaler failed to get cpu utilization: unable to get metrics for resource cpu: no metrics returned from resource metrics API
Notice what it says: autoscaling/v2beta2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler is deprecated in v1.23+, unavailable in v1.26+; use autoscaling/v2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler.
Also it says: no metrics returned from resource metrics API. Thought my metric server is running:
$ kubectl get deployment -n kube-system
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
coredns 1/1 1 1 304d
metrics-server 1/1 1 1 40h
This seems to be the reason why its not working. But what could be the reason?
Apart from that the CPU utilization is not also increasing much. Till yesterday night, I used to see max 3% CPU utilization in the output of command watch kubectl top node:
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%
minikube 141m 1% 1127Mi 7%
But now it shows following error:
Error from server (ServiceUnavailable): the server is currently unable to handle the request (get nodes.metrics.k8s.io)