[WIP][DO NOT MERGE] Proposal: Auto-scaling

Auto-scaling is a feature that allows users to increase capacity as needed by controlling the number of replicas deployed within the system based on request statistics. Auto-scaling is bidirectional, it will scale up to a specified limit as requests increase and scale down to minimal capacity as the requests decrease.

https://github.com/pweil-/origin/blob/035e0351a838a6ec6dcd65cc1977c85fca98ae5f/docs/autoscaling.md



Replication controllers should not need to know about autoscalers - they are the target of autoscaling, not the mechanism (reference the discussion where this was decided)