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title: Metrics Server
description: Metrics Server is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.
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    - text: Source
      link: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server
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      link: https://gitea.alexlebens.dev/alexlebens/infrastructure/src/branch/main/clusters/cl01tl/helm/metrics-server
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# Purpose

Core Kubernetes service that provides basic metrics on cpu, memory, and disk that is used by Kubernetes for tooling such as scaling. Also what is seen in [Headlamp](https://docs.alexlebens.dev/applications/headlamp) for live stats.

# Notes

Like some other services, it happily runs in the background without trouble.