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VPA: Add docs about AKS and EKS with Cilium #7655

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Fix typos and improve wording
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17 changes: 16 additions & 1 deletion vertical-pod-autoscaler/docs/faq.md
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- [What are the parameters to VPA recommender?](#what-are-the-parameters-to-vpa-recommender)
- [What are the parameters to VPA updater?](#what-are-the-parameters-to-vpa-updater)
- [How can I configure VPA to manage only specific resources?](#how-can-i-configure-vpa-to-manage-only-specific-resources)
- [Special requirements when running in AKS?](#special-requirements-when-running-in-aks)
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- [Special requirements when running in EKS with Cilium?](#special-requirements-when-running-in-eks-with-cilium)
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### VPA restarts my pods but does not modify CPU or memory settings

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2. CPU-only VPA:
* Use controlledResources: ["cpu"] when you want to automate CPU resource allocation
* Useful when memory requirements are stable but CPU usage varies
* Useful when memory requirements are stable but CPU usage varies

### Special requirements when running in AKS?

When running a webhook in AKS, it blocks webhook requests for the kube-system namespace in order to protect the system.
See the [AKS FAQ page](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/faq#can-admission-controller-webhooks-impact-kube-system-and-internal-aks-namespaces-) for more info.

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The `--webhook-labels` paramater for the VPA admission-controller can be used to bypass this behaviour, if required by the user.

### Special requirements when running in EKS with Cilium?

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When running in EKS with Cilium, the EKS API server cannot route traffic to the overlap network. The VPA admission-controller
Pods either need to use host networking or be exposed through a service or ingress.
See the [Cilium Helm installation page](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/installation/k8s-install-helm/) for more info.
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