Kubernetes 101 : Resource requests for the pods

Resource requests are the "wished" resources that a pod wants to have in regard to - memory and CPU -

We could state them through the command line, when creating a deployment for our nginx pods as below:

Then, we set the resource requests as below:

We could also state them in the deployment Yaml file, as we can see in the below example:

Remark:

- "0.5" CPU means "500" millicores, or half of the CPU resources in our case.
- "2Gi" is roughly the equivalent of "2.147 GB".

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