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name: containers-ts-storage-ca-apikey-reset
title: Autoscaling fails after API key reset
description: '**Infrastructure provider**: VPC'
last-updated: 2026-04-10
---

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# Autoscaling fails after API key reset
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**Infrastructure provider**: VPC


After you reset your API key, autoscaling fails with an IAM permission error.
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Resetting your API key means the credentials that the cluster autoscaler add-on uses are no longer valid. After resetting your API key, you must reset the cluster autoscaler controller to use the latest API key for volume provisioning.
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After resetting your API key, you must re-create the cluster autoscaler controller pod. To re-create the controller pod, delete it by running the following commands.
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1. Get the autoscaler pod name.

    ```sh
    kubectl get pods -n kube-system | grep cluster-autoscaler
    ```
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1. Delete the autoscaler pod.

    ```sh
    kubectl delete pod -n kube-system cluster-autoscaler-pod
    ```
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