Probes and Resources

Probes tell the kubelet whether a container is started, alive and ready for traffic; requests and limits tell the scheduler how much room it needs and the kernel how much it may take. Together they decide which Pods die first when a node runs short.

Subsections

• Probes
• How a Probe Checks a Container
• Requests and Limits
• QoS Classes
• In-Place Pod Resizing
• Tuning Probes