Kedify announces Predictive and AI-Focused Autoscaling for Kubernetes

Bart: So, who are you, what's your role, and where do you work?

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Zbyněk: My name is Zbyněk. I'm the founder and CTO at Kedify and a KEDA maintainer. I do all the things around auto scaling.

Bart: What news are you bringing to our audience today?

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Zbyněk: I'm excited to announce that for Kedify, we will open new extra features. We have predictive scaling, so you can scale your workloads based on prediction. We have scaling for your AI LLM workloads. Imagine hosting your LLM inferencing on a Kubernetes cluster—we help you scale it properly based on the right metrics. We also do multi-cluster autoscaling, allowing you to scale across multiple clusters from a single source.

Bart: What specific challenges do these new features address?

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Zbyněk: Predictive scaling is good to mitigate the cold start. Imagine an application that periodically receives traffic. The predictive scaler anticipates the traffic coming to the application and scales a few seconds or minutes in advance, ensuring the application is warm and ready to handle incoming traffic.

The LLM autoscaling helps host LLM models on Kubernetes clusters. The idea is to maximize GPU utilization while maintaining a good user experience for the models. When prompting an LLM model, users want a quick response while efficiently using GPUs.

Multi-cluster autoscaling allows scaling workloads across multiple clusters. It enables scheduling Kubernetes jobs or scaling deployments on different clusters. If there are problems, you can failover to other clusters, using a single source to distribute load across multiple clusters.

Bart: I notice that while the transcript snippet is very short, it seems to be part of a discussion about an announcement. However, without more context about what specific announcement is being discussed, I cannot confidently add hyperlinks. Could you provide more context about the announcement or the surrounding conversation?

Zbyněk: Regarding predictive scaling, I'm not aware of any competitive project or product solving this issue. I believe people were typically experimenting with Prometheus, trying to do predictive scaling. The same applies to LLM workloads in autoscaling, as there's a lot of buzz around AI and LLMs. We utilize vLLM, an open-source framework for hosting models, and we're trying to scale it properly. We are adding the last missing point in the infrastructure. For multi-cluster autoscaling, at the moment, if you are using the open-source version of KEDA, you cannot scale across multiple clusters—it's a single-cluster solution only. So again, this is a novel approach.

Bart: For the open source folks out there, are these new features open source, and if so, where do they fit in the CNCF landscape?

Zbyněk: Yes, some of these features are open source, specifically for LLM inferencing. We are utilizing our Kedify OpenTelemetry Scaler, which is open source. The other parts are part of our proprietary technology. We need to fund the business somehow, so we operate on the open core model. Partially, it's open source, partially it's closed source.

Bart: Can you break down Kedify's business model and pricing structure for teams that are evaluating these features?

Zbyněk: Kedify builds on top of open source KEDA. Our business model (which seems to follow an open core model) tries to help you save costs. Our pricing is dependent on every use case and scenario. We try to make the pricing reasonable for every customer. We do proof of concepts (POCs) free of charge. The best way to reach out to us is to run a POC. After the POC, you can evaluate whether you are happy with us and decide to continue with our business model or not.

Bart: What key advantages set Kedify apart from similar solutions in the market?

Zbyněk: We do auto-scaling the right way. We help you auto-scale your applications because if you want to save costs on Kubernetes clusters or improve performance, you need to properly scale both cluster and application levels. We try to do it the best way possible.

Bart: Looking ahead, what developments can our audience anticipate from KEDA?

Zbyněk: We are working on a bunch of features. We want to explore more on the AI side, so we would like to have an AI-infused autoscaler. The idea is that we can get multiple different signals and feed some model to help guide scaling decisions more dynamically based on multiple conditions. The other thing I would like to do, which people often ask about KEDA, is to run it multi-tenantly on a single Kubernetes cluster. It is not possible at the moment, and we would like to fix this problem.

Bart: And if people want to get in touch with you, what's the best way to do that?

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Zbyněk: Just ping me on Kubernetes Slack, CNCF Slack, or LinkedIn. I'm responsive.

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