To keep a node stable, kubelet reserves some resources as buffers to ensure it can take actions before a node's kernel acts. There are three configurable segregations or thresholds for different purposes:
- kube-reserved: Reserves resources for node components of Kubernetes
- system-reserved: Reserves resources for system daemons
- eviction-hard: A threshold for when to evict pods
Hence, a node's allocatable resources are calculated by the following equation:
Allocatable = [Node Capacity] - <kube-reserved> - <system-reserved> - <eviction-hard>
The Kubernetes and system reservations apply on cpu, memory, and ephemeral-storage resources, and they're configured by the kubelet flags, --kube-reserved and --system-reserved, with syntax ...
