https://www.cloudkaramchari.com/tags/etcd/Recent content in Etcd on CloudkaramchariHugo -- gohugo.ioencloudkaramchariSat, 05 Sep 2026 16:27:09 +0530https://www.cloudkaramchari.com/blog/aks-hyperscale-control-plane-preview-setup-guide/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:27:09 +0530https://www.cloudkaramchari.com/blog/aks-hyperscale-control-plane-preview-setup-guide/ <h1 id="aks-hyperscale-control-plane-preview-setup-guide-and-when-you-actually-need-it">AKS Hyperscale Control Plane (Preview): Setup Guide and When You Actually Need It</h1> <p>If you've ever run a large AKS cluster and watched <code>kubectl</code> requests start queuing during a traffic spike, or seen pods sit <code>Pending</code> while the scheduler falls behind, the cause is usually invisible: the managed control plane itself, not your nodes, ran out of headroom. Azure just gave you a lever for that. As of the August 19, 2026 documentation update, AKS supports a <strong>hyperscale control plane scaling profile (preview)</strong> — you pick a guaranteed capacity tier (<code>H2</code>, <code>H4</code>, or <code>H8</code>) at cluster creation instead of relying entirely on AKS's dynamic control plane scaling.</p>