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2025

Scale-to-Zero in Kubernetes: Save Costs Without Losing Traffic

If you've ever deployed HTTP services on Kubernetes, you've probably dealt with idle pods that burn resources during off-hours or inactivity.

In today's blog, we dive into the concept of Scale-to-Zero, why it matters, how existing tools implement it (and where they fall short), and how KubeElasti solves this problem with zero rewrites, zero request loss, and zero lingering proxies.