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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit
book

The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

by Viktor Farcic
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Comparing actual resource usage with defined limits

Knowing when a container uses too much or too few resources compared to requests helps us be more precise with resource definitions and, ultimately, help Kubernetes make better decisions where to schedule our Pods. In most cases, having too big of a discrepancy between requested and actual resource usage will not result in malfunctioning. Instead, it is more likely to result in an unbalanced distribution of Pods or in having more nodes than we need. Limits, on the other hand, are a different story.

If resource usage of our containers enveloped as Pods reaches the specified limits, Kubernetes might kill those containers if there's not enough memory for all. It does that as a way to protect ...

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