# Autopilot by Xano

## Docs

- [Autopilot vs CAST AI](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/guides/castai-comparison.md): A feature-by-feature comparison for teams evaluating Kubernetes cost optimization platforms or planning a migration.
- [Getting Started](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/guides/getting-started.md): Bootstrap a cluster, deploy Autopilot, and tour every optimization engine.
- [How Autopilot Works](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/guides/how-it-works.md): One loop, every layer — how Autopilot provisions the right nodes, tunes every autoscaler, resizes pods in place, and consolidates safely.
- [Verify It's Working](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/guides/quickstart-verify.md): A DevOps quick reference — what runs when, and how to confirm each optimization engine is healthy.
- [Right-size your entire Kubernetes cluster — without a single restart](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/index.md): Autopilot by Xano continuously tunes every pod, node, and autoscaler to real usage. Safely. In place. Entirely inside your cluster.
- [Access Control](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/access-control.md): Dashboard authentication, role- and namespace-scoped authorization, self-service access requests, and an audited login trail — all opt-in behind a single feature gate.
- [Dashboard Auth — Google OAuth](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/dashboard-auth-google.md): Configure the Autopilot dashboard to sign users in with Google OAuth/OIDC.
- [Disaster Recovery](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/disaster-recovery.md): Emergency procedures — disable all operations, force a node count, and stop rebalancing.
- [Limit & Storage Exceptions](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/exceptions.md): When a workload OOMs at its limit or a PVC fills up, Autopilot files a tracked exception with a clear approve/expand/acknowledge workflow — instead of silently fighting the symptom.
- [Node Scale-Down Behavior](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/node-scale-down.md): How and when Autopilot removes managed nodes — continuous scale-down, scheduled maintenance consolidation, and the guards that protect workloads.
- [Pod Tools — Terminal, Logs & Files](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/pod-tools.md): Browser-based shell, log streaming, and file transfer into any container — over the same primitives kubectl uses, with no agent in the pod, gated at every layer.
- [Resource Audit](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/resource-audit.md): Compare each workload's deploy template, Autopilot recommendation, and live pod resources — spot drift, and remediate it in one click or in bulk.
- [Operations Runbook](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/runbook.md): Deployment, health checks, monitoring, and day-to-day operational tasks for the Autopilot controller and autoscaler.
- [Troubleshooting](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/operations/troubleshooting.md): Diagnose common problems with node scaling, rebalancing, the autoscaler, CRDs, and leader election.
- [HPA Audit](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/hpa-audit.md): A fleet-wide view of every HorizontalPodAutoscaler in the cluster — the signals worth tuning, and bulk actions to tune them.
- [HPA Auto-Optimization](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/hpa-autoscaling.md): Turnkey HPA tuning — Autopilot classifies every autoscaler, applies the one lever that fits, parks idle workloads, and leaves the majority that are already fine alone.
- [Node Scaling](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/node-scaling.md): Horizontal infrastructure — NodePool or heterogeneous per-pod machine type selection.
- [Observability & Cost](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/observability.md): GCP managed-service monitoring, cluster network observability, and per-package cost attribution.
- [Pod Resizing](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/pod-resizing.md): Vertical optimization — right-sizing container CPU and memory requests from actual usage, in-place with no restarts.
- [Cluster Rebalancing](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/rebalancing.md): Cost optimization — recompute optimal node configs and migrate workloads, provision-first or rolling drain.
- [Resource Overrides](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/resource-overrides.md): Set per-workload floors and ceilings to constrain what Autopilot recommends — the operator guardrails that always win over the algorithm.
- [HPA Behavior Overrides](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/scheduled-scale-behavior.md): Fine-tune HPA scaling behavior during a scheduled window — speed presets, scale-down disabling, and CPU target.
- [Scheduled Scaling](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/scheduled-scaling.md): Pre-warm HPA targets before predictable traffic bursts by overriding minReplicas during time windows.
- [Storage & PVC Management](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/platform/storage.md): See every PersistentVolumeClaim's live usage and days-to-full projection, expand any volume on demand, and set per-PVC growth ceilings and auto-expand — no exception required.
- [API Reference](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/reference/api.md): Every Autopilot dashboard API endpoint, grouped by function.
- [CRD Reference](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/reference/crds.md): Full schemas for the RebalancePolicy, NodeScalingPolicy, and PodResizePolicy custom resources.
- [Environment Variables](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/reference/environment-variables.md): Environment variables read by the Autopilot controller and autoscaler.
- [MCP Server](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/reference/mcp-server.md): The per-cluster, read-only Model Context Protocol server for querying live cluster state from an LLM client.
- [opsctl CLI](https://autopilot.docs.xano.com/reference/opsctl-cli.md): The command-line interface for cluster analysis, rebalancing, resource prediction, and CRD status inspection.