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Ken'ichi Ohmichi ab3fd0de7e Add necessity of metrics-server for HPA (#9729)
* Add necessity of metrics-server for HPA

Current HPA doc1 mentions metrics-server like

  For resource metrics, this is the metrics.k8s.io API,
  generally provided by metrics-server. It can be launched
  as a cluster addon.

The metrics.k8s.io API is mandatory for HPA, so the above means
metrics-server needs to be launched for HPA. However it is difficult
to understand that requirement because the above seems metrics-server
as just a addon, and that is described on small section.
In addition, many people are facing HPA issue that fetching metrics
doesn't work on the internet like

  $ kubectl get hpa
  NAME      REFERENCE          TARGETS         MINPODS   MAXPODS   REPLICAS   AGE
  nginx     Deployment/nginx   <unknown>/50%   1         3         0          7s

The above sample "<unknown>" shows HPA feature cannot get current
metrics due to metrics-server doesn't work fine.

This adds necessity of metrics-server for HPA directly to solve
the problem.

fixes: #9728

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