stepscale is early. The Community tier is public and self-serve, so the fastest way to see whether it helps is to install it on a real cluster and read what it finds. Public case studies will come as design partners go to production.
Design partner program
Running the analysis is self-serve. If you want the operator to act on its recommendations, with the probation and rollback safety net, we are working with a small group of design partners on the apply and predictive-schedule features and offering a 30-day full trial.
minReplicas floors set during an incident idle 24/7 and never come down. stepscale finds the ones it can safely cut, with a savings estimate.
Scale-up that lags a traffic spike turns into pager events. The rule engine flags scale-lag and proposes target and stabilization fixes.
Stop reviewing HPA configs PR by PR. The operator reads the real metrics and tells you what to change, and why.