Scale-to-Zero Kubernetes Environments with KEDA and Envoy Gateway
You keep dozens of environments on one cluster: one per team, one per QA, UAT or staging stage, one for every guest. Most of them sit idle most of the day, and every idle environment still holds its pods, its resource requests and its share of the node bill. KubeRocketCI ships KEDA as a platform add-on, and it can scale them to zero. The hard part is bringing one back the moment a person opens it.
KubeRocketCI does that with krci-env-daemon, a small open-source component that reads the Envoy Gateway access log, wakes a sleeping environment through KEDA on its first request, and shows a waiting page that opens the Portal by itself once everything is Ready. In a KubeRocketCI cluster it comes down to three add-on switches.
Every number below comes from a real run: a KubeRocketCI environment on Amazon EKS and the local try-kuberocketci testbed.