Orchestration Core
Scaling & scheduling
Lesson 5 of 5
Resource requests drive both autoscaling decisions and how the scheduler bin-packs Pods onto nodes with enough free capacity.
What you'll learn
- Use requests and limits to declare a Pod's resource footprint
- Understand the HPA's desired-replicas formula at a high level
- See how the scheduler places Pods on nodes by available CPU and memory
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