https://szymonkocur.com/tags/gitops/Recent content in GitOps on Szymon KocurHugoen-usSat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://szymonkocur.com/posts/flux-ignore-differences-hpa-replica-count/Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://szymonkocur.com/posts/flux-ignore-differences-hpa-replica-count/I added a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to a Flux-managed Deployment and watched the replica count bounce between what the HPA wanted and what Git said. Every 5 minutes, Flux would reconcile, see that spec.replicas had drifted from the Git state, and reset it. The HPA would immediately scale it back. Repeat forever. This is a fundamental tension in GitOps: Flux’s job is to make the cluster match Git. The HPA’s job is to set the replica count based on metrics.