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Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
Create an HPA named prep-hpa for the Deployment prep-server in namespace auto-scale. Requirements: CPU target: 50% utilization per pod Min replicas: 1 Max replicas: 4 Downscale stabilization window:…
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The task
Create an HPA named prep-hpa for the Deployment prep-server in namespace auto-scale.
Requirements:
- CPU target: 50% utilization per pod
- Min replicas: 1
- Max replicas: 4
- Downscale stabilization window: 30 seconds
What this tests
Run and schedule workloads — deployments, autoscaling, taints and tolerations, affinity, and resource limits. On the CKA exam, Workloads & Scheduling tasks are graded purely on what you build in the cluster — not multiple choice — so the only way to get faster is to do them on a real cluster against a clock.
Practice it for real
prepium.sh drops you into your own isolated Kubernetes cluster in the browser — no install, no credit card. You solve the task in a real terminal, hit validate, and a programmatic checker scores exactly what you got right and wrong (with partial credit). The canonical solution unlocks after you attempt it, so you learn the fast, exam-ready way to do it.