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Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler vs Karpenter: When to Use Each (2026) Your pods are pending. Your on-call engineer is getting paged. Somewhere in the chain between “I need more compute” and “compute is available,” something is too slow. That something is almost always node provisioning — and the tool you chose to manage it determines whether that delay is 4 minutes or 45 seconds. Node autoscaling is one of those infrastructure decisions that looks simple until you’re running it in production. Two schedulable pods sitting in Pending state doesn’t just mean a delayed deployment — it means latency spikes, dropped traffic,…