Great Scott! You made to kubernetes! You've successfully deployed your application on a kubernetes cluster and you start to understand why all this fuzz about it. Aftet having statically scaled your deployment to a number of replicas/pods, you feel adventurous enough to use the all mighty Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. I mean, don't take me wrong, there's no harm in using a static scale to a number of your choosing, on the other hand, one of the beauties of using a container-orchestration system such us kubernetes is the music like results that stems from kubernetes directing the lead violinist (one pod) as well as tens or hundreds of violins (x pods) in absolute harmony!
So, there you have it, you bought into that music parallelism, and you