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| title | id | date | short_description | aka | tags | |
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| Resource (infrastructure) | infrastructure-resource | 2025-02-09 | A defined amount of infrastructure available for consumption (CPU, memory, etc). |
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Capabilities provided to one or more {{< glossary_tooltip text="nodes" term_id="node" >}} (CPU, memory, GPUs, etc), and made available for consumption by {{< glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod" >}} running on those nodes.
Kubernetes also uses the term resource to describe an {{< glossary_tooltip text="API resource" term_id="api-resource" >}}.
Computers provide fundamental hardware facilities: processing power, storage memory, network, etc. These resources have finite capacity, measured in a unit applicable to that resource (number of CPUs, bytes of memory, etc). Kubernetes abstracts common resources for allocation to workloads and utilizes operating system primitives (for example, Linux {{< glossary_tooltip text="cgroups" term_id="cgroup" >}}) to manage consumption by {{< glossary_tooltip text="workloads" term_id="workload" >}}).
You can also use dynamic resource allocation to manage complex resource allocations automatically.