Misadventures in Kubernetes: Autoscaling Workers

So we’ve already done a few things for setting up our own custom cluster. We’ve manually configured a Kubernetes Control Plane and joined worker nodes by hand. While that was a great way for us to learn the components, let’s be honest: setting up every server by hand is just not scalable for a real production environment. Or for creating a more resilient cluster as well! Really the main issue boils down to how we set up the initial pool of worker nodes. If what I’m talking about us doing isn’t f