This blog post was initially posted on CNCF blog and is co-authored by Yan Xun, Senior Engineer from Alibaba Cloud EDAS team & Andy Shi, Developer Advocator from Alibaba Cloud. When scaling Kubernetes there are a few areas that come to mind, but if you are new to Kubernetes this can be a bit overwhelming. In this blog post; we will briefly explain the areas that need to be considered, how KEDA aims to make application auto-scaling simple, and why Alibaba Cloud’s Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS) has fully standardized on KEDA.