Requests vs Limits: Utilisation, Idle Reserve & Overcommit
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You compare the CPU requests and limits of six Larkspur Labs services with their measured usage, find the reserved CPU that sits idle and check how far the limits overcommit the cluster.
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Lessons in this course
- CPU Millicores & Memory Units: m, Mi, Gi, M and G Locked
- Requests vs Limits: Utilisation, Idle Reserve & Overcommit Locked
- Right-Sizing Requests: p95 Usage × Headroom, Rounded Up Locked
- Pods per Node: Allocatable Capacity & the Binding Resource Locked
- How Many Nodes? Total Requests, DaemonSets, Target Fill & N+1 Locked
- Bin Packing: First-Fit Placement, Step by Step Locked
- Cost per Service: Allocating Node Cost by Requests Locked
- Autoscaling: the HPA Formula & Replicas Through the Day (Chart) Locked