title: How to autoscale elastic search in kubernates based on load?
body: <p>I am using Google Cloud and I am doing RnD whether we can apply <code>HPA</code> (Horizontal Pod Auto scaling) on elasticsearch in Kubernetes.</p>
  <p>I did <code>elasticsearch</code> set up on <code>Kubernetes</code> : <a href="https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch</a></p>
  <p>But I found one of the post on forum they say <code>elasticsearch</code> HPA is hard</p>
  <p><a href="https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-scale-up-and-down-nodes-automatically/224089/2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-scale-up-and-down-nodes-automatically/224089/2</a></p>
  <p>So is it possible to do <code>HPA</code> on elasticsearch or not ?</p>