Do you think that CPU requests are just used for scheduling? Think again. Introducing CPU Shares, and laying the grounds for removing your limits! — Co-Authored by@shirmon Understanding CPU Requests In the previous post, I talked about the foundation of Kubernetes resource management. In this post, we will dive deeper into what is going on behind the scenes when we configure CPU requests to a pod’s containers.

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the ‘resources’ block of containers in a pod. But do we really know what Kubernetes uses them for under the hood? — Co-Authored by@shirmon One of the very first things that we are taught by the community when starting to use Kubernetes is always to set requests and limits for CPU and memory on every container in our pods. When you specify a Pod, you can optionally specify how much of each…