One of the most important things Kubernetes can do for you is to help ensure workloads are running on nodes capable of handling their resource requirements. Setting proper requests and limits can help prevent you from over saturating your nodes which would inevitably result in poor performance.

Resource Requests

Definition of the amount of resources K8s will guarantee to a pod hosted on a node

Resource Requests define the amount of resources that K8s will guarantee to a pod. To some degree you could think of this definition as the minimum requirements for successful pod creation. Let’s look at an example of what this could look like in a yaml:

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