Multi-team platform, mission 4 of 5

Fair share

advanced, about 12 minutes, in the Kubernetes Simulator

Start mission

Opens once you pass Look, don't touch.

The briefing

Last week a search experiment scaled to forty pods and checkout couldn't schedule a single one. Search gets a budget: a ResourceQuota caps what the pods in a namespace may request in total.

Once a quota counts CPU or memory, the API server refuses any pod that doesn't say how much it needs — and search's pods say nothing. A LimitRange fills in defaults for containers that don't. quota.yaml and limits.yaml are ready in your directory.

What you'll do

  • Put the compute quota on search
  • search's web still deploys: 2 ready pods, created under the quota
  • Bonus star: See the budget being spent with kubectl describe quota

The mission checks the cluster, not your keystrokes: any fix that works, passes.

More Multi-team platform missions

  1. 1. A room each
  2. 2. A key for the robot
  3. 3. Look, don't touch
  4. 4. Fair share
  5. 5. No room to roll
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