Scaling management in a distributed computing environment

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to cause the processing resource to:

• determine a status of a pod running a workload in a distributed computing environment, wherein the pod is an object in the distributed computing environment having a number of containers configured to execute computer-readable instructions to run the workload;
• determine whether a time-based exemption exists for the workload;
• and
• scale the distributed computing environment for the workload by creating a number of replicas of the pod to additionally run the workload based on the status of the pod and whether the time-based exemption exists for the workload.

A computing device for scaling management in a distributed computing environment, comprising:

• a processing resource;
• and
• a memory resource storing non-transitory machine-readable instructions to cause the processing resource to:
• determine a status of a pod running a workload in a distributed computing environment including at least one of a resource usage of the pod and an annotation associated with the pod, wherein the pod is an object in the distributed computing environment having a number of containers configured to execute computer-readable instructions to run the workload;
• determine whether an exemption exists for the workload by polling a database;
• and
• scale the distributed computing environment for the workload by creating a number of replicas of the pod according to the annotation associated with the pod in response to the status of the pod and an exemption existing for the workload, wherein the number of replicas are configured to additionally run the workload.