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unkinben 4d877531b0 Add vpa-system: VPA CRDs + recommender (advise mode) (#281)
## Why

Rolls out the Vertical Pod Autoscaler control plane so the estate can gather right-sizing recommendations for every workload (advise mode, follow-up PR adds the per-workload VPA objects). Deploys the **recommender only**: advise mode never mutates pods, so the updater and admission-controller (and its mutating webhook) are intentionally omitted — fewer moving parts, no webhook in the admission path.

## Changes

- Add `apps/base/vpa-system/`: namespace, VPA CRDs (verticalpodautoscalers + verticalpodautoscalercheckpoints) pulled from the kubernetes/autoscaler repo at the pinned tag (same upstream-raw pattern node-feature-discovery uses), recommender-scoped RBAC (SA + metrics-reader/actor/status-actor/checkpoint-actor/target-reader), and the recommender Deployment.
- Add `apps/overlays/au-syd1/vpa-system/` referencing the base.
- Register `apps/overlays/*/vpa-system` in the platform ApplicationSet.

## Notes

- Pins upstream **vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.7.0** (latest stable, 2026-05-29) for both CRDs and the `registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-recommender:1.7.0` image.
- No platform AppProject change needed: `*-system` namespace destination plus CustomResourceDefinition/ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding are already whitelisted.
- The recommender image is pull-through-cached via terraform-artifactapi PR #13 (merge gate below).

## Merge gate

- Requires terraform-artifactapi PR #13 (adds the `autoscaling/vpa-` pattern to the k8s-registry docker remote) to land first so the recommender image is served through the cache.

Reviewed-on: #281
Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
2026-07-25 18:26:15 +10:00

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---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: vpa-recommender
app.kubernetes.io/component: recommender
app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.7.0"
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: vpa-recommender
template:
metadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: vpa-recommender
app.kubernetes.io/component: recommender
spec:
serviceAccountName: vpa-recommender
securityContext:
runAsNonRoot: true
runAsUser: 65534
containers:
- name: recommender
image: registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-recommender:1.7.0
args:
- --pod-recommendation-min-cpu-millicores=15
- --pod-recommendation-min-memory-mb=100
- --v=2
ports:
- containerPort: 8942
name: metrics
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health-check
port: metrics
initialDelaySeconds: 15
periodSeconds: 20
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health-check
port: metrics
initialDelaySeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 10
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
capabilities:
drop: ["ALL"]
resources:
requests:
cpu: 50m
memory: 500Mi
limits:
cpu: 500m
memory: 1000Mi