Pulsar function replicas auto scaling
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Description
### Search before asking
- [X] I searched in the [issues](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues) and found nothing similar.
### Motivation
Pulsar function and connector in Kubernetes runtime should be able to auto scale based on resource usage or the input topic backlog size or some other metrics. The auto scale should be horizontal scaling.
### Solution
_No response_
### Alternatives
Use the existing Kubernetes HPA. But the state of replicas won't be saved because function stop removes the function statefulset. The parallelism is save in bookkeeper not Kubernetes (upon statefulset removal) in the current implementation.
### Anything else?
_No response_
### Are you willing to submit a PR?
- [ ] I'm willing to submit a PR!
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by examining the Kubernetes runtime implementation for Pulsar functions and connectors, including how function statefulsets are created, stopped, and how parallelism is stored in BookKeeper. Define the scaling metrics and a way to preserve replica state across stops; done means horizontal autoscaling works without losing the configured parallelism.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, kubernetes
- Domain
- distributed-systems, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100