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Per-Container Resource Management

In this lab, you need to instate a per-container resource management. Each container needs to be configured to individually not use more than 1 CPU. Apart from that, you also need to configure each container to individually not use more than 50% of RAM.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Published
Clock icon Apr 03, 2020

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Open Three Terminals and Three Sessions to the Lab Server

    1. Open three terminal sessions.

    2. In each one, log in to the server using the credentials provided:

      ssh cloud_user@<PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS>
      
  2. Challenge

    Run Two Python Containers with Set Limits 50% CPU and 500M RAM

    sudo docker run -it --rm --cpus="0.5" --memory=500m docker.io/python
    
    sudo docker run -it --rm --cpus="0.5" --memory=500m docker.io/python
    
  3. Challenge

    Run Tests to See Your Resource Limits Take Effect

    In each container, run this code and observe the resource usage with htop in the third terminal session:

    import threading
    
    def test():
      while True:
        1000*1000
    
    threading.Thread(target=test).start()
    threading.Thread(target=test).start()
    threading.Thread(target=test).start()
    threading.Thread(target=test).start()
    threading.Thread(target=test).start()
    

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