Kubernetes Requests & Limits

This document is the result of research on the topic of CPU/Memory Limits and Requests for Kubernetes, to provide engineers with a better understanding of how such configuration work and can affect the execution and performance of services. Requests and Limits are the mechanisms k8s uses to control the utilisation of resources such as CPU and memory. Requests are what the container is guaranteed to get. If a container requests a resource, the kube-scheduler will only schedule it on a node that can give it that resource. ...

September 15, 2022 · 8 min · 1564 words