# Dynamic Scaling task\_replicas

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 10, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806 "2024-02-10T21:21:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![trippinnik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/trippinnik/32/4308_2.png) [@trippinnik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/trippinnik)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806/1 "2024-02-10T21:21:47Z")

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I successfully set up a karpenter deployer and set tolerations for tasks to run there, but I am still seeing jobs queued up for a long time. Rather than queue up during busy times I would like another task pod to be created which could trigger another node being created and added for the pod.

What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![TheRealHaoLiu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/therealhaoliu/32/100_2.png) [@TheRealHaoLiu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/TheRealHaoLiu)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806/2 "2024-02-27T03:47:38Z")

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in the roadmap… we laid some good ground work with termination grace period

this PR will allow you to bring your own HPA to AWX

[https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/pull/1676](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/pull/1676)

try it out and see how it works for you more upvote on the PR gets it merged faster~

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**Author:** ![trippinnik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/trippinnik/32/4308_2.png) [@trippinnik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/trippinnik)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806/3 "2024-02-27T16:28:21Z")

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Are there images and helm i can point to?

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**Author:** ![trippinnik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/trippinnik/32/4308_2.png) [@trippinnik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/trippinnik)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806/4 "2024-04-01T20:22:20Z")

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Is there some way this can be done on a schedule with cron or something?

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**Author:** ![som](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@som](https://forum.ansible.com/u/som)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-scaling-task-replicas/3806/5 "2024-08-29T19:58:57Z")

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Did anyone ever get this working? I see the aforementioned HPA pull request was merged back in June.