Announcement Simon Sha · Aug 11, 2025

#InterSystems Demo Games entry


⏯️ Auto-scaling made easy in GKE with InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO)

Kubernetes horizontal pod auto-scaling (HPA) is the key to handle the unpredictable compute workload in healthcare systems. IKO helps orchestrating the IRIS container deployment in Kubernetes including the capability to configure HPA. This demo uses XSLT processing as an example to showcase this type of elasticity.

🗣 Presenter: @Simon Sha, Sales Architect, InterSystems

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Article Simon Sha · Mar 19, 2021 2m read

cAdvisor (short for container Advisor) analyzes and exposes resource usage and performance data from running containers. cAdvisor exposes Prometheus metrics out of the box. 

https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/cadvisor/

Prometheus is integrated in SAM. This makes it possible to leverage the cAdvisor metrics and expose them via Prometheus and Grafana.

Since cAdvisor listens on port 8080, which conflicts with the Nginx port, you can choose to change the Nginx port to accommodate that.

Configuration Steps:

1. Change nginx port.

modify nghix.conf:

    server {
        listen 9991; 

This allows you to access

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