title: Kubernetes Scaling up pods by time based trigger
body: <p>I have a server running on Kubernetes to handle hourly processing jobs. Thinking of using a service to expose the pods, and using an (external) cron job to hit the load balancer so that kubernetes can autoscale to handle the higher load as required. However in implementation, if the cron job sends, say, 100 requests at the same time while there's only 1 pod, all the traffic will go to that pod whereas subsequently spun up pods will still not have any traffic to handle. </p>
  
  <p>How can I get around this issue? Is it possible for me to scale up the pods first using a cron job before making the requests? Or should I make requests with a time delay so as to give time for the pods to get spun up? Or other suggestions are also welcome!</p>