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This page shows how to set a quota for the total number of Pods that can run in a namespace. You specify quotas in a [ResourceQuota](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/{{< param "version" >}}/#resourcequota-v1-core) object.

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Create a namespace

Create a namespace so that the resources you create in this exercise are isolated from the rest of your cluster.

kubectl create namespace quota-pod-example

Create a ResourceQuota

Here is the configuration file for a ResourceQuota object:

{{< codenew file="admin/resource/quota-pod.yaml" >}}

Create the ResourceQuota:

kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/quota-pod.yaml --namespace=quota-pod-example

View detailed information about the ResourceQuota:

kubectl get resourcequota pod-demo --namespace=quota-pod-example --output=yaml

The output shows that the namespace has a quota of two Pods, and that currently there are no Pods; that is, none of the quota is used.

spec:
  hard:
    pods: "2"
status:
  hard:
    pods: "2"
  used:
    pods: "0"

Here is the configuration file for a Deployment:

{{< codenew file="admin/resource/quota-pod-deployment.yaml" >}}

In the configuration file, replicas: 3 tells Kubernetes to attempt to create three Pods, all running the same application.

Create the Deployment:

kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/quota-pod-deployment.yaml --namespace=quota-pod-example

View detailed information about the Deployment:

kubectl get deployment pod-quota-demo --namespace=quota-pod-example --output=yaml

The output shows that even though the Deployment specifies three replicas, only two Pods were created because of the quota.

spec:
  ...
  replicas: 3
...
status:
  availableReplicas: 2
...
lastUpdateTime: 2017-07-07T20:57:05Z
    message: 'unable to create pods: pods "pod-quota-demo-1650323038-" is forbidden:
      exceeded quota: pod-demo, requested: pods=1, used: pods=2, limited: pods=2'

Clean up

Delete your namespace:

kubectl delete namespace quota-pod-example

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For cluster administrators

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