System and Method for Infrastructure Scaling

A method, system and computer program product, the method comprising: determining properties of a set of containers that are deployed over a computer infrastructure, wherein the computer infrastructure is provisioned via an infrastructure management service; determining properties of one or more headroom containers, wherein the one or more headroom containers are not deployed over the computer infrastructure; simulating the container orchestrator using the properties of the set of container and the properties of the headroom containers, for obtaining an expected deployment of the set of containers together with the one or more headroom containers; based on the expected deployment, determining whether the computer infrastructure is sufficient for deploying the set of containers together with the one or more headroom containers; and subject to the computer infrastructure being insufficient, issuing a request to the infrastructure management service to allocate additional computer infrastructure.