Excluding a namespace or workload from the Automation

Learn how to effortlessly exclude a cluster, namespace, or workload from your Automation configuration

In some cases, you might want to exclude specific namespaces or workloads from automation. Use the following configurations in order to exclude the particular namespace or workload from automation in the cluster

Exclude a namespace

apiVersion: perfectscale.io/v1
kind: NamespaceAutomationConfig
metadata:
  name: your-namespace-automation-config
  namespace: your-namespace # The namespace where the configuration should be applied
spec:
  automation:
    operational:
      automationMode: Disabled # Disables Automation for the specified namespace

Exclude kube-system namespace

By default, PerfectScale does not automate the kube-system namespace. However, in some cases, GCP users may encounter warning banners. If you notice this warning and want to prevent PerfectScale from intercepting the pods in this namespace (meaning you don't want to automate the kube-system namespace at all), further configuration is needed.

There are two ways to exclude the kube-system namespace completely:

1. Set excludeNamespaces to kube-system here.

excludedNamespaces: ["kube-system"]

1. Upgrade the Automation Agent by running the following command:

helm upgrade --install -n perfectscale psc-autoscaler \
--set secret.create=false \
--reset-then-reuse-values \
--set "settings.excludedNamespaces[0]=kube-system" \
perfectscale/psc-autoscaler

Exclude a workload

Workload automation config should specify a namespace, and it should match the namespace of the associated workload.

apiVersion: perfectscale.io/v1
kind: WorkloadAutomationConfig
metadata:
  name: your-workload-automation-config
  namespace: your-namespace # The namespace where the configuration should be applied
spec:
  automation:
    operational:
      automationMode: Disabled # Disables Automation for the workload with the specified parameters
  targetRef:
    kind: Deployment
    name: deployment-name-here

Exclude workload(s) by label

Workload automation config should specify a namespace, and it should match the namespace of the associated workload.

apiVersion: perfectscale.io/v1
kind: NamespaceAutomationConfig
metadata:
  name: your-workload-automation-config
  namespace: your-namespace # The namespace where the configuration should be applied
spec:
  automation:
    operational:
      workloadLabelSelectors:
        - key: "environment"
          value: "production"
          allowAutomation: false    # Disables Automation for the workload(s) with the specified label