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Getting Started with Managing Resources

Explore how to manage resources in Kubernetes by defining CPU and memory limits, preventing overload, and enabling the Metrics Server. This lesson helps you understand essential resource allocation and Quality of Service concepts to run efficient and stable Kubernetes clusters in production.

Why is resource management important?

Without an indication of how much CPU and memory a container needs, Kubernetes has no other option than to treat all containers equally. That often produces a very uneven distribution of resource usage. Asking Kubernetes to schedule containers without resource specifications is like ...