Managing Resource Usage in Kubernetes

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Managing Resource Usage in Kubernetes

Kubernetes offers a variety of features that can help you control how resources are allocated in your cluster. This lab will allow you to build your experience with some of these features by solving problems that might arise in a real-world cluster.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 22, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Configure Resource Requests for a Deployment

There is a Deployment called royal-jelly in the hive Namespace.

Add resource requests to this Deployment's containers. The container should request 128Mi memory and 250m CPU.
Challenge

Configure Resource Limits for a Deployment

Add resource limits to the Deployment called royal-jelly in the hive Namespace.

For the containers in this Deployment, the limits should be 256Mi for memory and 500m for CPU.
Challenge

Create a ResourceQuota for a Namespace

Use a quota to limit the resources that can be used in the hive Namespace.

The quota should allow total resource requests in the Namespace up to 1Gi for memory and 1 CPU.

For resource limits, the quota should allow up to 2Gi for memory and 2 CPU.

Note: The ResourceQuota admission controller is already enabled in the environment. You do not need to enable it.

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