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  2. OCPBUGS-14970

ROSA docs update on "autoscaling nodes on a cluster"

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      Description of problem:

      The link below is the question from the customer about auto-scaling. It is not clear how this exactly works in ROSA.
      https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_service_on_aws/4/html/cluster_administration/nodes?extIdCarryOver=true&sc_cid=7013a000002pdO4AAI#rosa-nodes-about-autoscaling-nodes 
      
      Per the docs, it says, “automatically scale the number of machines in a cluster.” so, in a multi-az cluster, there will be 3 machine sets.
      
      We need more explanation for this.
      Here are what I learned from engineering, and I provided the following to the customer.
      
      This is the reference to how the K8S cluster auto-scaler works: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/FAQ.md#im-running-cluster-with-nodes-in-[…]t-supported-by-cluster-autoscaler. I referenced the question for your use case.
      ROSA uses --balance-similar-node-groups flag as true in the default setting 
      $ oc get clusterautoscalers.autoscaling.openshift.io default -o yaml
      apiVersion: autoscaling.openshift.io/v1
      kind: ClusterAutoscaler
      metadata:
        creationTimestamp: "2022-12-22T21:37:43Z"
        generation: 1
        name: default
        resourceVersion: "187750893"
        uid: c2f78f86-2c9e-43cb-a1af-d0a71987532d
      spec:
        balanceSimilarNodeGroups: true
        scaleDown:
          enabled: true
      Cluster Autoscaler will only add as many nodes as required to run all existing pods. If the number of nodes is not divisible by the number of balanced node groups, some groups will get 1 more node than others.
      The Kubernetes/autoscaler reference also mentions that similar node groups will not have the exact sizes.
      

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      Actual results:

      The customer believed that if additional resources were required and autoscaling enabled, the nodes would scale in a set of three since they have multi-az for the cluster per how the docs describe it currently. 
      

      Expected results:

      if we can provide the details of how the cluster auto-scaler works and descript the expected ROSA behavior. 
      

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              rhn-support-skaranth Shashank Karanth
              shanna_chan Pui Chan
              Zhaohua Sun Zhaohua Sun
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