Vertical Pod Autoscaler in Production: In-Place Resize Works — Until It Doesn’t
Kubernetes 1.35 made in-place pod resize stable. Most of the coverage stopped there. The narrative wrote itself: Vertical Pod Autoscaler finally works for stateful workloads. No more restarts. Enable InPlaceOrRecreate and let the autoscaler do its job. The restart tax is gone. That framing is accurate about one thing and misleading about everything else. In-place…