Controlling the maximum resources utilized by a k8s namespace

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How can one control the maximum resources to ever be used (at a given moment) by everything running in a specific k8s namespace. (Max. memory, max. CPU)?

mcarlin · Answer 1 · 2019-09-26T16:27:53.947

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This can be accomplished via a ResourceQuota on the given namespace.

From the docs:

A resource quota, defined by a ResourceQuota object, provides constraints that limit aggregate resource consumption per namespace. It can limit the quantity of objects that can be created in a namespace by type, as well as the total amount of compute resources that may be consumed by resources in that project.

A resource quota is defined like so (from the k8s admin docs):

apiVersion: v1
kind: ResourceQuota
metadata:
  name: mem-cpu-demo
spec:
  hard:
    requests.cpu: "1"
    requests.memory: 1Gi
    limits.cpu: "2"
    limits.memory: 2Gi

Note: This information comes from the k8s v1.16 documentation

edited Sep 26 '19 at 16:27

answered Sep 26 '19 at 00:13

mcarlin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '19 at 07:17

Define resource quota objects per namespace. you can set maximum compute resources per namespace and also define number of objects to be deployed per namespace. follow the below samples

apiVersion: v1
kind: ResourceQuota
metadata:
  name: mem-cpu-demo
  namespace: quota-mem-cpu-example
spec:
  hard:
    requests.cpu: "1"
    requests.memory: 1Gi
    limits.cpu: "2"
    limits.memory: 2Gi
----
The ResourceQuota places these requirements on the quota-mem-cpu-example namespace:

Every Container must have a memory request, memory limit, cpu request, and cpu limit.
The memory request total for all Containers must not exceed 1 GiB.
The memory limit total for all Containers must not exceed 2 GiB.
The CPU request total for all Containers must not exceed 1 cpu.
The CPU limit total for all Containers must not exceed 2 cpu.

similarly define object quota

apiVersion: v1
kind: ResourceQuota
metadata:
  name: object-quota-demo
  namespace: quota-object-example
spec:
  hard:
    persistentvolumeclaims: "1"
    services.loadbalancers: "2"
    services.nodeports: "0"


Which implies that there can be at most one PersistentVolumeClaim, at most two Services of type LoadBalancer, and no Services of type NodePort.

reference: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/quota-api-object/

Controlling the maximum resources utilized by a k8s namespace

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