[🐛 Bug]: The Selenium Grid Scaler incorrectly scales Linux pods when Windows nodes are present in the cluster.

[Doofus100500]

What happened?

Hi, I've opened an issue in the KEDA project, but they say that the problem is in Selenium.

Command used to start Selenium Grid with Docker

helm chart 0.20.0

Relevant log output

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Operating System

k8s

Docker Selenium version (tag)

4.11.0-20230801

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[diemol]

I don't understand. Do you expect that Windows containers are started?

[Doofus100500]

No, the Windows nodes are located on VMs. The problem arises precisely with Linux containers when there are Windows nodes in the cluster, namely scaling fewer containers than the requested number of sessions.

[diemol]

I see. I am not sure what needs to be changed to have that working. Any help is appreciated.

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[Doofus100500]

I think trouble is not in selenium kedacore/keda#4908 (comment)

[Doofus100500]

Hi @VietND96 , I'm ultimately being ignored in the Keda project. Perhaps you have the power to fix this bug?

[VietND96]

@Doofus100500, I also started understanding what the scaler did in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/blob/main/pkg/scalers/selenium_grid_scaler.go and try to add a possible fix
As you can see, most current open issues related to autoscaling in K8s need the proper fix in the scaler, which is present only in the KEDA project.

[Doofus100500]

Yes, I noticed progress in this direction here: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/blob/trunk/charts/selenium-grid/values.yaml#L721 =) I even want to study Go lang in order to submit a Pull Request to them, but life circumstances are currently stronger than me.

[Doofus100500]

@VietND96 Hi, made a PR to keda to fix that kedacore/keda#5917

[VietND96]

@Doofus100500, by fixing this, do you have any clue on the issue (in a few tickets mentioned) - when using strategy: accurate, the number of pods scales up is greater than the number of requests in the queue (e.g. 1 request - 2 or 3 pod could come up).

[Doofus100500]

@VietND96 No, I haven’t encountered such issues without Windows nodes